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#Question id: 15003


Laurie met her husband Jim at a support group for families dealing with PKU (phenylketonurea), a recessive genetic disorder. Laurie and Jim both have one sister who is affected with PKU and no other family history of the disorder. They come to you as a genetic counselor to ask what their risk is of having an affected child. What do you tell them?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. They must both be heterozygotes so their risk of having an affected child is ΒΌ.
  2. They must both be heterozygotes so their should tested to see if they carry the disease allele or not
  3. Since neither one of them is affected, they are not at risk of having an affected child.
  4. You can't give them any firm answers because you don't know their genotypes.
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#Question id: 12548

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Use the survivorship curves in Figure to answer the following questions
Which curve best describes survivorship in songbirds?

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#Question id: 18865

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

The NA value of an oil immersion objective lens is___________.

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#Question id: 28064

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following Techniques can be used to for Measuring Stability of protein    
a. DSC (calorimetry) 
b. Urea gradient gels 
c. FRET
d. EPR
Which of the following is correct

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#Question id: 7185

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Following statements are regarding to establishing the three separate cell lineages in the mouse blastocyst.

A. The first two cell types to be specified are the inner cell mass and the trophectoderm. This involves progressive restriction of expression of the genes that code for transcription factors Oct4 and Cdx2.

B. At the eight-cell stage, all the cells express both genes at low levels, but by the late morula/early blastocyst stage, Cdx2 expression has increased in, and eventually becomes restricted to, the cells on the outside of the embryo, and these will form trophectoderm. Oct4

expression becomes restricted to the inner cell mass cells at early blastula stage.

C. Within the inner cell mass, two separate cell types arise: the epiblast cells, from which the embryo will develop; and the primitive endoderm, which will form extra-embryonic structures. This involves a progressive restriction of expression of the genes for the transcription factors Nanog and Gata6.

D. At the early blastula stage, some of the inner cell mass cells apparently at random start to express higher levels of Nanog, whereas the other cells express higher levels of Gata6.

E. By the late blastula, the cells expressing the two different transcription factors have sorted out within the inner cell mass so that cells expressing high levels of Nanog form an outer epithelial layer of primitive endoderm enclosing the epiblast cells expressing high levels of Gata6.

Which of the following statements are correct?


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#Question id: 807

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following forces can stabilize a normal DNA double-helix?