How can you tell when you have adequately species diversity? Explain your answer.
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What is the unusual about fungal mating strategies -- what unique type of ploidy do they have?
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Explain five pieces of evidence that supports the gradualistic mode of an evulotionary trend?
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Explain five pieces of evidence that supports the punctuational mode of an evolutionary trend?
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1) List 5 adaptations that allow plants to live in relatively dry conditions. What is the order in which these evolved?
2) List two of the earliest adaptations plants developed to live on dry land. Why were these first adaptations, coming before vascular tissue, roots, or leaves?
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What if the gene encoding DNA polymerase I was mutated in a way that the enzyme is non-functional?
Would it affect the synthesis of the leading strand?
How about the lagging strand?
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What is the event that marks the transition from haploid to the diploid stage of the life cycle and what event marks the transition back to the haploid stage again. Describe the timing of these two cellular even in life cycles that are dominated by haploid cells, dominated by diploid cells or that have alternation of generations.
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How would do the following question given the intracellular and extracellular recordings of voltage? Calculate the length constant for this axon using the equation for passive electronic decay of a signal: Vx=Vo e^-x/lambda , where x=1 node.
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48. Provide evidence that amphibians are both terrestrial and aquatic animals. (4)
49. Which structure was most important in allowing reptiles to break completely free of water in comparison to amphibians?
a. better adapted eyes
b. an amniotic egg
c. four chambered heart
d. claws
50. Which of the following groups of vertebrates are endothermic (circle all that apply).
a. ‘classic’ reptiles (snakes, turtles, alligators)
b. birds
c. mammals
d. amphibians
e. fish
51. What is an advantage of being endothermic? (2)
52. What is a disadvantage of being endothermic? (2)
53. A group of mammals that lays eggs and do not have nipples, babies suck milk from the hairs on their mother’s chest.
a. monotremes
b. marsupials
c. eutherians
54. A group of mammals that have a placenta that provides oxygen and nutrients to embryos in the uterus.
a. monotremes
b. marsupials
c. eutherians
55. A group of mammals that give birth after a short period of development. Females have a pouch where the young complete development.
a. monotremes
b. marsupials
c. eutherians
56. You are an evolutionary biologist studying human lineages. While digging at your current site, a mostly intact skull of a possible human ancestor is unearthed. After analysis in the lab, it is determined that the brain capacity of the organism was 800 cm3. Which genus would you place this organism in?
a. Australopithecus
b. Paranthropus
c. Homo
57. Complete the following classification for humans. (9 points)
Domain ______________________________________________________________________
Kingdom _____________________________________________________________________
Phylum _______________________________________________________________________
Subphylum ___________________________________________________________________
Class __________________________________________________________________________
Order _________________________________________________________________________
Family ________________________________________________________________________
Genus _________________________________________________________________________
Species ________________________________________________________________________
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In some plants a red pigment is synthesized from a colorless precursor by a single enzyme coded for by gene A. The red pigment can be changed into a purple pigment by another enzyme coded for by gene B. A cross between pure-breeding purple plants and white plants with the resulting F2:
94 purple
31 red
43 white
A.Give a concise genetic hypothesis for inheritance of flower color from these results (include number of genes, number of alleles, and the relations between genes and alleles).
B.Using symbols A and B to correspond to genes A and B as described above symbolize the genotypes and their ratios for each F2 phenotypic class.
C.If the F1 is used in a testcross, what phenotypic ratio would you expect in the progeny?
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6. A bacterium does not want to waste energy synthesizing the amino acid arginine if arginine is present in its diet. Therefore, when arginine is present, it activates a repressor protein to prevent transcription of genes that code for enzyme to make arginine. This is an example of what type of regulation? Please describe the mechanism of this regulation.
7. Prokaryotic genetic information transferring processusually acts as target of antibiotics. We observed a new compound with antibiotic action, and we have already proved this compound do not affect the bacterial replication process. Based on your knowledge about gene information transmission (DNA replication, transcription and translation), please assume the possible mechanism(s). Please use your knowledge to make an experiment to prove your assuming?
8. The initiation of transcription in eukaryotes is a key pointof gene expression regulation. The interaction between biological macromolecules (protein-protein, protein-nucleotide) is very important in the expression regulation of eukaryotic genes. Can you give two examples of regulatory mechanisms related to transcription initiation? Describe the structural features of the molecules.
Choose one or two of this questions to which you are the most certain. thanks!!!
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Find 5 clinical trial articles on the impact of a particular medications and how it might change the current practice. The articles should be a primary literature article ( e.g a randomized double blinded trial), include a large sample size, and should be a recent article ( from 2019- 2020)
I wish to use the articles to do a Journal club presentation. Please follow the above instructions.
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Cell Biology Worksheet
Part I: Foundations of Cell Biology
Respond to the prompts in the tables below. Each response should be at least 30 words. Cite any references that you use.
Foundations of Chemisty in Biology
Prompt |
Your response |
Describe an example of a chemical reaction that occurs in the body. |
Plant Cells
Prompt |
Your response |
Describe the primary structures in plant cells. |
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Explain the role of each structure in plant cells. |
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Explain how plant cells make energy for cellular processes. |
Animal Cells
Prompt |
Your response |
Describe the primary structures in animal cells. |
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Explain the role of each structure in animal cells. |
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Explain how animal cells make energy for cellular processes. |
Bacterial Cells
Prompt |
Your response |
Describe the primary structures in bacteria cells. |
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Explain the roles of each structure in bacteria cells. |
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Explain how bacteria cells make energy for cellular processes. |
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How are plant cells, animal cells, and bacteria cells different? |
Part II: Applying The Scientific Method to Everyday Life
Recently, Earl attended a picnic at his daughter’s school. The picnic was a potluck, and the food was served outdoors. Contributions included hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato chips, potato salad, coleslaw, apple pie, and vanilla ice cream. Within 24 hours of the picnic, several attendees developed symptoms of food poisoning. Of the 50 people who attended the picnic, only 30 people became ill. Every person at the picnic ate something, but not every person had an opportunity to sample each item. Earl noticed that the potato salad he started to eat was warm. He also noticed that his hamburger was somewhat pink in the middle and not fully cooked. Earl wonders if eating the hamburgers or the potato salad could be responsible for making some attendees ill. Earl has begun to apply the scientific method to this common problem. Answer each of the following prompts in at least 75 words.
Prompt |
Your response |
What is Earl’s hypothesis? How did Earl create his hypothesis? |
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Describe the steps of the scientific method Earl utilized. |
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How could Earl use the scientific method to create an experiment to determine which food sources made people sick? |
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