Match each scenario with the type or mode of selection that fits best. Answers can be used more than once. Group of answer choices
1.A population of Madagascar hissing cockroaches lives in a woodpile. It suffers heavy predation from lizards. Because their heads are small, the lizards are unable to eat the very largest adult cockroaches, and instead prey upon small and medium sized adults. What type of selection do the lizards impose on the roaches?
2.Indian paintbrush flowers vary from dark to light red in color. Bumblebees form a search image for flowers that have medium (average) red coloration, and preferentially pollinate those flowers.
3.A beetle species is introduced to an island covered with dark basaltic rock. The beetles range in coloration from dark brown to a very light brown. On this dark background, darker beetles are much more resistant to predation than are lighter-colored beetle. The dark beetles have a large selective advantage. All phenotype are relatively common in the group of beetles released on the new island.
4.In a species of bird, individuals with genotype MM are susceptible to avian malaria, Mm birds are resistant to avian malaria, and the mm birds are resistant to avian malaria, but the mm birds are also vulnerable to avian pox.
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Explain the molecular process of digestion of starch with Amylase?
How would ph, water and temperature affect this
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What are the categories that organisms can be grouped in based on their nutritional requirements. Find one microorganism, either a prokaryote or eukaryote, and describe the environment in which it lives. (Does it live underwater? On skin? In soil? Give as many details as possible!) What are nutritional needs and environmental requirements. (Is it a halophile? A chemoheterotroph?
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How might parental care also be costly to a care-giving parent? How do costs vary for males versus females?
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1. (a) How do Chaperones prevent aggregation?
(b) Is the existence of chaperons, and their necessity in many cases, consistent with the idea that ALL of the folding information for proteins is in the primary sequence?
(c) Reconcile (or refute) the fact that chaperonins require ATP energy for their activity with the statement that proteins "self-assemble".
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Certain antibody isotypes are more important from blood-borne infections while other isotypes are more important for food-borne infections. Taking this into consideration, draw two different immunoglobulin with different effector functions, present in two different tissues of the body. Your drawing should demonstrate the effect the specific antibody isotype has within the tissue.
Include:
1) labels to indicate the isotype of the antibody you have drawn
2) labels to indicate the receptor that recognizes the antibody, the cell with the receptor, the tissue which the cell is located in, an antigen binding to the antibody, and the effect the antibody performs.
3) add a sentence or two to describe what happens to a person lacking the certain receptor or antibody you have described in each drawing.
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Discuss all aspects of the LDL-R pathway – the receptor’s structure, interactions with the LDLs, the structure of the LDLs and where made, their endocytosis, recycling of receptors, role of pH – how let go of LDL, and fate of LDL within the cell.
PLEASE ANSWER IN DETAIL
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Fruit flies, like all insects, are covered with fine, hair-like bristles, which serve as sensory structures.
You discover a male fruit fly, which has short, under-developed bristles.
You cross this male fly with a female fly with normal bristles. Of 400 progeny, you count 205 flies with normal bristles and 195 with short bristles. You cross two F1 flies (both have short bristles) and count 400 progeny; 267 have short bristles and 133 have normal bristles.
A test cross of the F1 short bristle flies results in the following results: 195 flies with short bristles and 205 flies with normal bristles.
A reciprocal cross (short-bristled female flies with normal males) yields similar results in the F2.
A. Do what of inheritance pattern do you think this trait is showing ?
B. What conclusions can you make about the allele causing short bristles and the genotype of the original male?
C. What is the best explanation for this phenotypic pattern?
I chose
A. Homozygous dominant lethality
B. dominant
C. Individuals with the genotype BB and Bb show SHORT bristles, and those with bb show NORMAL bristles
But I got 4/6 points, not sure which I got wrong.
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Biology
Help, please
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Water-soluble vitamins participate in all of the following functions except
Group of answer choices
blood formation.
acting as antioxidants.
maintaining the nervous system.
lipid metabolism.
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The fact that genes have been �conserved� throughout evolution
Select one:
a. means that genes that perform certain functions in lower animals have been maintained even in human DNA.
b. enables organisms like yeast to be able to use human genes to function.
c. connects all living organisms to a common ancestor approximately 3.5 billion years ago.
d. is upheld by all of the above.
e. tells us nothing about any of the above.
f. tells us that conservative politicians ought to be able to determine whether or not we accept this evidence.
Note: not (a) alone or (c) alone
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Most bacteria can easily be lysed by heating to a high temperature, thus eliminating the need for a separate DNA extraction step prior to DNA amplification by PCR. Probiotic bacteria are notoriously difficult to lyse, requiring enzymatic or physical disruption methods. Explain why (think about gram identity and the environmental conditions for probiotic bacteria).
Eukaryotic cells also require DNA extraction steps, unlike most bacteria. Explain why (think about the differences in cell structure).
Many DNA extraction protocols include a step where DNA is precipitated from solution, thus enabling the isolation of pure DNA. This step involves the addition of salt and alcohol. Explain why the addition of salt and ethanol causes DNA to precipitate from an aqueous solution. (Think about the structure of DNA and its interaction with an aqueous solvent).
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Discuss the evolutionary trends in the genus Homo. Start with the transition from early Homo to Homo erectus and end with the Neandertals. Be sure to include the temporal and geographic distributions of the various species of Homo.
Sub: Anthropology
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QUESTION 19
Light dependent reactions are carried out both on and in between photosystems. This process is like the last stage of aerobic respiration in that both
reaction sequences carry out electron transfer phosphorylations. |
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processes generate ATP. |
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processes involve electron flow. |
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systems are lodged along and within a membrane surface. |
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all of the above. |
3.2 points
QUESTION 20
Each wavelength of light has its own
temperature. |
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separate source where it’s generated. |
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energy level. |
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molecular structure. |
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interference pattern. |
3.2 points
QUESTION 21
________ organisms build their own energy-rich molecules using solar energy.
Micro- |
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Autotrophic |
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Tropical |
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Multicellular |
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Marine |
3.2 points
QUESTION 22
Energy supplied to break bonds in reactant molecules is known as
electrical potential. |
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action potential. |
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supplemental energy. |
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activation energy. |
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feedback inhibition. |
3.2 points
QUESTION 23
Accessory pigments enable the chloroplast to
absorb and thus use a wider range of wavelengths of light. |
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carry out both photosynthesis and respiration. |
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store light energy for use during the night. |
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continue functioning when only non-visible wavelengths are available. |
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attract a different set of insects to the plant in the fall season. |
3.2 points
QUESTION 24
In respiration, chemical energy is transferred from glucose to ATP. The energy transfer however, is not 100% efficient. In the transfer, some of the energy is lost as
carbon dioxide. |
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heat. |
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pyruvate. |
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light. |
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ADP. |
3.2 points
QUESTION 25
In a crowded, unventilated room, the temperature rises because
people’s cells burn glucose inefficiently giving off heat. |
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people in crowded rooms tend to talk more. |
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the carbon dioxide people exhale is loaded with potential energy. |
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people’s respiration process consumes most of the available energy. |
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people consume oxygen leaving behind smaller molecules that move faster. |
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How does dentinal tubule occlusion stop dentin hypersensitivity?
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