Biology and Genetics

1) NCC Poison brochure page... a) What phone number can you dial from anywhere i

1) NCC Poison brochure page... a) What phone number can you dial from anywhere is the U.S. and be routed to the closest Poison Control Center? (fyi...911 does not work nationwide)…

1) NPP = 1000 energy units and 200 units of energy are consumed (ingested) by he

1) NPP = 1000 energy units and 200 units of energy are consumed (ingested) by herbivores. Of this 200 units, 50 units are assimilated by herbivores and 150 units are excreted as w…

1) Name three minerals that will crystallize in a) basalt b) andesite c) dacite

1) Name three minerals that will crystallize in a) basalt b) andesite c) dacite d) rhyolite. In order to evaluate the differentiation of volcanic rocks, you (yes, as in you) can u…

1) North and south America are moving away from Europe and Africa. What is the n

1) North and south America are moving away from Europe and Africa. What is the name of the process on the ocean floor which causes that? A) Subduction B) Gravity C)Convection D) T…

1) Observe rotifers feeding on red-stained yeast particles. Does rotifer behavio

1) Observe rotifers feeding on red-stained yeast particles. Does rotifer behaviour change when food is encountered? 2) How are food particles handled? Briefly describe the method …

1) Of the following, which is probably the most common route for membrane flow i

1) Of the following, which is probably the most common route for membrane flow in the endomembrane system? A) Golgi vacuoleER plasma membrane B) nuclear envelope vacuole Golgi pla…

1) Of the restriction enzymes listed in the table, which enzymes generate flush,

1) Of the restriction enzymes listed in the table, which enzymes generate flush, or blunt-ended, fragments? 2) Of those that recognize offset sites and generate staggered cuts, wh…

1) Often leads to deletion in chromosome sequence. a) recombinational repair b)

1) Often leads to deletion in chromosome sequence. a) recombinational repair b) direct repair c) base excision repair d) mistmatch repair e) nucleotide excision repair d) nonhomol…

1) Once acetylcholine is released into the synapse it.. a. is actively pumped ba

1) Once acetylcholine is released into the synapse it.. a. is actively pumped back into the presynaptic neuron. b. is broken down by peptidases c. is inactivated by calcium d. is …

1) One more Replication Question: How much energy does it take the replication D

1) One more Replication Question: How much energy does it take the replication DNA? Here are some AG's of cleavage that may be useful: NTPH20NDPPi NTP + H2O-) NMP + PPi PPi+ H2O2 …

1) One of the available treatment conditions was a solution of CaCl 2 . How is t

1) One of the available treatment conditions was a solution of CaCl2. How is this salt expected to affect the feeding behavior of T. voraxand why? a. CaCl2 is not expected to have…

1) One of the reasons that the later record of human evolution from about 500,00

1) One of the reasons that the later record of human evolution from about 500,000 to 40,000 year ago is so difficult to sort out is because A. no fossil hominids are found in dire…

1) Only a portion of the mass of food ingested by an herbivore, such as a limpet

1) Only a portion of the mass of food ingested by an herbivore, such as a limpet, is passed on to primary consumers in the next trophic level. What happens to the rest? Select one…

1) Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae 2) Which of the following statemen

1) Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae 2) Which of the following statements is not consistent with Darwin's theory of natural selection? 3) Which statement about evolution …

1) Organisms that must obtain their energy (food) from organic sources in their

1) Organisms that must obtain their energy (food) from organic sources in their environment, such as by eating other organisms, are called A) phototrophs B) autotrophs C) nuritrop…

1) Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. If you travel to the top of a

1) Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. If you travel to the top of a mountain where the total atmospheric pressure is 0.8 atmospheres, what will the partial pressure of…

1) Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. If you travel to the top of a

1) Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. If you travel to the top of a mountain where the total atmospheric pressure is 0.8 atmospheres, what will the partial pressure of…

1) Our growing understanding of how proteins fold allows researchers to make pre

1) Our growing understanding of how proteins fold allows researchers to make predictions about proteinstructure based on primary amino acid sequence data. Consider the following a…

1) Over a 5-year study, a ridge-top forest is found to be accumulating carbon in

1) Over a 5-year study, a ridge-top forest is found to be accumulating carbon in the biomass of the plants, detritus and soil organic matter at a total rate of 200 g/m2/ yr. Respi…

1) Overexpression mutations can be oncogenic because theoncogene is a)translocat

1) Overexpression mutations can be oncogenic because theoncogene is a)translocated next to an active regulatory sequence b)amplified c)altered in a regulatory sequence d)all of th…

1) Oxygen consumption increased over twofold when a b3 adrenergic agonist that s

1) Oxygen consumption increased over twofold when a b3 adrenergic agonist that stimulate UCP1 was injected into normal mice. This was not observed when the agonist was injected in…

1) PART A: Draw oxaloacetate with ONE 14 C-label (use a dot on the carbon to rep

1) PART A: Draw oxaloacetate with ONE 14C-label (use a dot on the carbon to represent the isotope) that would release 14CO2 in ONE cycle of the citric acid cycle. PART B: Show the…

1) Panel A shows the initial crosses and representative chromosomes of animals i

1) Panel A shows the initial crosses and representative chromosomes of animals in a QTL mapping project. The black regions represent chromosome material from the largest purebred …

1) Parents pass their traits on to their offspring, but the offspring are never

1) Parents pass their traits on to their offspring, but the offspring are never identical to either parent. Darwin termed this observation   A) descent with modification. B) fitne…

1) Photosystem II contains one of the most amazing enzyme activities on Earth. W

1) Photosystem II contains one of the most amazing enzyme activities on Earth. What makes it so amazing? It catalyzes the formation of ATP from ADP using the energy of the proton …

1) Please click here ( https://prabook.com/web/irma.gigli/816684 ) to read the b

1) Please click here ( https://prabook.com/web/irma.gigli/816684 ) to read the biography of Dr. Gigli 2) Then, click here ( http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2015/06/05/just-sk…

1) Post any of the following for nutrition: A question you still may have or nee

1) Post any of the following for nutrition: A question you still may have or need further clarification on. A healthy tested/tried recipe you might like to share (w/photo and why …

1) Pressure ________. a. decreases with height in the troposphere and slowly inc

1) Pressure ________. a. decreases with height in the troposphere and slowly increases in the stratosphere b. decreases with height everywhere c. increases with height d. decrease…

1) Previously unidentifiable microorganisms have now been identified through ___

1) Previously unidentifiable microorganisms have now been identified through ________. Previously unidentifiable microorganisms have now been identified through ________. transcri…

1) Procaryotic transcription has three steps, name them and 2) A is the DNA sequ

1) Procaryotic transcription has three steps, name them and 2) A is the DNA sequence recognized by the RNA polymerase 3) This protein is needed by the bacterial RNA polymerase to …

1) Prothoracicotropic hormone is used to help organisms molt. What are they molt

1) Prothoracicotropic hormone is used to help organisms molt. What are they molting? hydrostatic skeleton exoskeleton skin endoskeleton 2) A little girl was allergic to the sun (p…

1) Prove to me, with structures, why I can’t base pair with G! And I=inosine, no

1)  Prove to me, with structures, why I can’t base pair with G! And I=inosine, not “me!” 2) Below is sequence taken from the 5’ end of a prokaryotic mRNA. Underline the probable S…

1) Provide an example of and explain how a leukocyte and a soluble factor it sec

1) Provide an example of and explain how a leukocyte and a soluble factor it secretes can have protective as well as destructive consequences. 2) What links Toll-like receptor (TL…

1) Provide the following for each of the four types of healthcare systems (U.S.,

1) Provide the following for each of the four types of healthcare systems (U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany). a) Financing b) Physician makeup (generalist/primary vs. specialist) c) Ho…

1) Provide three scientific reasons/facts from our textbook reading that can be

1) Provide three scientific reasons/facts from our textbook reading that can be used to support the idea that another glaciation WILL happen at either 1, 2, or 10 million years fr…

1) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis usually grow harmlessly in t

1) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis usually grow harmlessly in the body. However these organisms can cause disease. Because these bacteria use the Entner- Doudorof…

1) Psychology uses an alpha level of .05. This means that A) When we get a non s

1) Psychology uses an alpha level of .05. This means that A) When we get a non significant result, there is a 5 % chance we are making a false negative B) When the null hypothesis…

1) Put the geological periods below in order by writing the appropriate number n

1) Put the geological periods below in order by writing the appropriate number next to the name. Then identify the periods in which the events happened by writing the appropriate …

1) Pyrimidines are synthesized through a long series of reactions beginning with

1) Pyrimidines are synthesized through a long series of reactions beginning with the amino acid aspartate (wow!). The ribonucleotide CTP is one of the final compounds in this reac…

1) Quantitatively the largest class of immunoglobulins in human serum is: a) IgG

1) Quantitatively the largest class of immunoglobulins in human serum is: a) IgG b) IgA c) IgM d) IgD e)IgE 2) A viral vaccine for the common cold probably would not be beneficial…

1) Question 1 (20 pts ) You are studying neurons in the lab by growing them in c

1)Question 1 (20 pts) You are studying neurons in the lab by growing them in culture (in a petri dish outside the body). You grow them in an incubator at 37 degrees C. With this e…

1) Question 2 (8 pts) You discover a new organism living at the bottom of a cave

1)Question 2 (8 pts) You discover a new organism living at the bottom of a cave. You characterize its nervous system by the Nernst potentials and permeabilities to particular ions…

1) Rabbit’s ears can be either short (dominant) or floppy (recessive). If a popu

1) Rabbit’s ears can be either short (dominant) or floppy (recessive). If a population of rabbits in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium has 250 short eared rabbits and 100 floppy eared ra…

1) Ran GTPase A) Why is Ran-GTP concentrated in the nucleus? why is Ran-GDP conc

1) Ran GTPase A) Why is Ran-GTP concentrated in the nucleus? why is Ran-GDP concentrated in the cytoplasm B) explain how the concentrating gradients of Ran-GTP and Ran-GDP ensure …

1) Read chapters 4-5 2) From the website htswww.osha.gow/dte/grant materials/fy1

1) Read chapters 4-5 2) From the website htswww.osha.gow/dte/grant materials/fy11/sh 22318-11/Mod 3 HazandiDinstructorNotes.adf, review Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment f…

1) Read the diagram below while reflecting on your own cultural identity. Select

1) Read the diagram below while reflecting on your own cultural identity. Select two factors from each section (Culture, Subcultures and Individual factors) and write how each app…

1) Red-Green color blindness is an X-Linked recessive trait in humans, whereas p

1) Red-Green color blindness is an X-Linked recessive trait in humans, whereas polydactyly is an autosomal dominant trait. Consider a female that has normal color vision and is no…

1) Reflecting on all that you\'ve read or watched in this unit (the individual a

1) Reflecting on all that you've read or watched in this unit (the individual and society, religion and science, author and reader), what do you think are two serious problems for…

1) Remembering the stefan -Boltzmann law (S=sagim T ^4) and the wien\'s law (^ m

1) Remembering the stefan -Boltzmann law (S=sagim T ^4) and the wien's law (^ max =Q/T) , if the tempetrature of a black body were reduced by 50 % then how would a ) the wavelengt…

1) Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease caused by inflammation. How can Borrelia bu

1) Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease caused by inflammation. How can Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, cause rheumatoid arthritis? 2) Why is Lyme disease…