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#Question id: 15445

Necroptosis,
Choose INCORRECT statements about this ?

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which occurs only in the absence of caspase-8, would provide an alternative pathway for cell death that also prevents pathogen spread, but at a cost to the host organism—inflammation.
TNFα triggered necroptosis rather than apoptosis.
A series of interactions leads to the recruitment of the kinases RIPK1 and RIPK3, which are thought to oligomerize into a structure dubbed the necrosome, and the activation of RIPK3 kinase activity.
MLKL, is a substrate for RIPK3, is targeted to the plasma membrane before its phosphorylation.

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Some proteins contain additional amino acids that arise by modification of an amino acid already present in a peptide, examples include

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

The arrangement of microtubules in eukaryotic flagella is referred to as

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In the following pedigree shows the segregation of two different recessive traits.

Derive a general equation relating the probability that the child will have both traits expressed as a function of the distance between the markers in cM.

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#Question id: 2927

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Site-directed mutagenesis of Tyr-15 to Phe in cdc2:

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which of the following would you choose to study the role of polymerase subunits in elongation? ___

a. epitope tagging

b. immunoprecipitation

c. in vitro transcription

d. western blotting