Meristic characteristic - Some characteristics are not continuous but are nevertheless considered quantitative because they are determined by multiple genetic and environmental factors.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

This is equivalent to nick translation, except that the new DNA replaces a stretch of RNA rather than a segment of DNA.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

When a nonfunctioning duplicate is fixed in the population, or a functioning gene becomes nonfunctional, the result is a genetic skeleton called a pseudogene.

Deletions are important in shaping the genome.

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Trichomes of nettles (Urtica dioica) have “cocktail” of secondary metabolites that can cause severe irritation of the skin of animals.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

In Escherichia coli, MutS scans the DNA, recognizing mismatches from the distortion they cause in the DNA backbone. 

MutS has an ATPase activity that is required for mismatch repair and recruits MutL, a second protein component of the repair system. MutL, in turn, activates MutH, an enzyme that causes an incision or nick on one strand near the site of the mismatch. Nicking is followed by the action of a specific helicase (UvrD) helicase unwinds the DNA, starting from the incision and moving in the direction of the site of the mismatch, and the filled in by DNA polymerase III