Consider the oxidation of a single glucose molecule. How many carbons from that glucose molecule remain to be oxidized following a single turn of the TCA cycle?
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Can someone explain the differences between thermophiles, mesophiles, halophiles, acidophiles, etc. and under what environmental conditions they would survive successfully?
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16. Which of the following best describes when a population has reached carrying capacity within an ecosystem
(A) Birth rate= death rate
(b) Population growth accuracy exponentially
(c) Organism are adjusting to new environmental conditions
(d) Birth rate exceed death rate
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Questions
1. Which of the following is true for the omega angle in the protein backbone?
a. it equals 180 degrees.
b. the orientation of the bonds around the peptide bonds is Cis.
c. it may have any value between 0 to 180.
d. the most common values of omega angel are 60 to 120.
2. Which of the following can not apply to heat shock protein?
a. They are proteins found only in eukaryotes.
b. They form complexes with unfolded cellular protein which cannot fold spontaneously, to help them fold properly.
c. the protein to be folded is held with a chamber of the chaperonin protein complex.
d. If a protein released from chaperonin has not been folded properly, the heat shock proteins can bind the unfolded to make another folding.
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Part 1: Primates vs. Non-Primates
Use material you find online or find images and descriptions of two non-primate mammals (e.g., dogs, horses, dolphins, raccoons, etc.). (Note: copy and paste small images of the non-primate mammals you choose. Please be creative and don’t just use the examples I listed here!).
1. What traits do these animals share in common with primates?
2. What important primate traits do they lack?
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Class Merostomata and Class Arachnida inhabit very different environments, identify the main challenges faced by each organism in these different environments and identify three ways each has adapted for its habitat.
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Describe the process of electron transport provided by NADH and FADH2 through the electron transport chain
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How is eukaryotic cell division different from prokaryotic? ( I know prokaryotic is simpler, but i need a little more explanation)
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I have a research about the "Nano-wafers", and i need to write an outline and some points that i can address in my paper
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You are a researcher working in a molecular laboratory. One day, you need to run a batch of PCRs. You assembled the reagents including Taq polymerase, made the reaction mixtures, and ran them in a thermocycler.
After the PCR program ran to completion, you performed a gel electrophoresis to check the quality of the PCR product. To your dismay, all reactions appeared to have failed! Nothing showed up on the gel.
You reviewed the thermocycler’s log, which displayed the following information about your recent PCR cycles:
Denaturation: 91°C for 1 minute
Annealing: 50 °C for 40 seconds
Elongation: 65 °C for 3 minutes
Can this temperature profile explain the PCR failure? Explain in your own words (4 points)
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State the molecular function of the proteins encoded by each of the following genes. Briefly state how disruption of this gene results in the recessive phenotype.
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*Which of the following statements is true?
a. peptidoglycan is comprised of cross-linked fatty acids
b. the cell walls of most bacteria are composed of peptidoglycan
c. Gram-negative bacteria have a relatively thick layer of peptidoglycan
d. peptidoglycan is found mainly in the cell walls of fungi, algae and plants
e. answers (a) and (b) are both correct
* The cell membrane of bacteria
a. is semi-permeable.
b. is usually a lipid bilayer
c. prevents cell lysis due to high intracellular osmotic pressure
d. answers (a) and (b) are correct e. answers (a) and (c) are correct
* A bacterial species has a generation time of 15 minutes and is growing exponentially. If there are 2 cells initially how many cells are there after 90 minutes?
a. 256 b. 128 c. 64 d. 32 e. none of the above
*Most bacterial cells reproduce by
a. the budding of daughter cells from a mother cell
b. forming spores that later germinate
c. binary fission
d. production of gametes and sexual reproduction
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Discuss how bacteriophages cause mutations
(in a long paragraph essay )
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