An invasive plant gets into your garden. It spreads through and out-competes all of you plants, reducing the local diversity. Which principle applies most directly?
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character displacement |
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sympatric and allopatric speciation |
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random variation and stochasticity |
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competitive exclusion principle |
A muskrat has a litter of offspring with another muskrat. Then another litter 7 months later, then 4 years later. Which reproductive strategy best applies?
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Parthenogenisis |
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Iteroparity |
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Semelparity |
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Hermaphroditism |
During the North American summer, large areas of the Midwest have very high albedo. This is likely because of
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Fruiting plants |
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Flooding in plains |
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Ice formation in mountains |
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Loss of plants in fields |
Nesting birds often display this type of distribution or dispersion pattern, often resulting from competition. (For example... how their nests are individually spaced)
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Clumped |
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Uniform |
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Random |
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Linear distribution |
The energy from the sun must be directly converted into chemical energy by heterotrophs for living organisms to use it.
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True |
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False, it must be converted by chemotrophs |
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False, it must be converted by phototrophs |
Which of the following is a characteristic of a K-selected species
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High reproductive rate |
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Typically found in temporary habitats |
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Late sexual maturity |
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Minimal parental care |
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After the formation of continents one billion years ago, there have been no occurrences of primary succession. |
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There is virtually no soil at the start of primary succession, and thus it must be made before many plants can be sustained. |
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There is a fast recovery time at the beginning of primary succession. |
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It will often be triggered after a fire. |
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morphological description of Vitaceae Description?
How are the leaves arranged?
What is the shape of the leaf?
Leaf type? pinnately compound. palmately compound or simple
What other leaf characteristics are important? leaf margins Is the leaf is petiolate, sessile, or clasping?
Inflorescence type ? spike raceme panicle corymb umbel helicoid cyme
Reproduction? Any information ?
synapomorphies of this plant family are?
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64. Computationally predicting protein structure from a sequence may involve a “homology modeling” approach and/or “ab initio” techniques such as fragment assembly. Describe how both evolutionary data and knowledge of physico-chemical principles / force fields are used in predicting the structure adopted by a protein sequence.
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1. The process of splicing:
Group of answer choices
a. Removes intron sequences
b. Removes polypeptides
c. Joins exon sequences
d. a) and c)
e. b) and c)
2.
Which of the following functions is not attributed to non-coding RNA?
Group of answer choices
a. RNA interference
b. Degredation of mRNA
c. Splicing of RNA
d. Post-translational modification of proteins
e. All of the above are the functions of non-coding RNA
3.
Conversion between electrical / chemical signals
Group of answer choices
a. Conversion between electrical / chemical signals
b. Reception of signal
c. Signal transmission
d. Pre- and Post-synaptic changes
e. All of the above
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66. Describe the role of force fields in the approach to identify a protein that binds influenza hemagglutinin.
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Examine the ingredient list for Yves Jumbo Veggie Dogs (Water, soy protein, wheat gluten, tofu (water, soybeans, magnesium chloride), cane sugar, wheat starch, salt, yeast extract, spices, carrageenan (from seaweed), natural liquid smoke, beetroot powder, potassium chloride, vitamin and mineral blend. Contains soy, wheat and mustard.) Vegetable protein and a vegetable gum are included to help give the product its structure. Identify which ingredients from the list contribute to structure and belong to either classification (i.e., vegetable protein or vegetable gum) and discuss their functionality with respect to product structure.
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A prominent academic, Jarred Diamond, has called the agricultural revolution "the worst mistake in the history of the human race." Do you agree or disagree? What are your reasons? Please submit at least 250 words in your reply. You should go into the benefits and drawbacks of agriculture while painting your argument.
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3.Explain the term semiautonomous and the developmental relationships between the various plastid types – “how they are formed, what stimulates their formation”.
4.Compare and contrast between the general products and substrates of photosynthesis and respiration.
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How does one recognize sex-linked inheritance? How could one distinguish a sex-linked dominant allele from a sex-linked recessive allele?
What is the significance of a recombination frequency of 50%? Is it possible to have a recombination rate significantly greater than 50% (such as 80 or 90%)?
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Sympatric species have overlapping territory.
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True |
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False, the term sympatric can only refer to evolution |
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False, species never overlap in territory |
Bees and wasps both have specialized physical and chemical defenses. Their coloration is also similar. This is an example of...
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Mullerian mimicry |
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Gaussian mimicry |
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Masting mimicry |
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Batesian mimicry |
Acid rain is associated with all of the following biogeochemical cycles EXCEPT...
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Carbon cycle |
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Sulfur cycle |
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Hydrologic cycle |
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Phosphorus cycle |
As seen in the Galapagos finch example, competition can cause character displacement.
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True |
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False, character displacement has been shown to be false due to the competitive exclusion principle. |
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False, character displacement only occurs with allopatric species |
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R-selected species would exhibit?
1. Type 1 survival curve
2. External fertilization
3. Eutherian development
4. Viviparity
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Given that the pKas of the α-amino group and the α-carboxylic acid group in an amino acid are about 9 and 2 respectively, explain why the zwitterion is the predominant form of an amino acid at pH 7.
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need to expalin in detail and more depth wrt biomedical image processing
1) colour biomedical image processing
2) 3d biomedical image procssing
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FALSE about the Nitrogen cycle?
Nitrogen is released as ammonia as bacteria breakdown decaying organic tissue OR Nitrogen is transferred through water, air, and trophic cycles.
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