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#Question id: 3572


How might the ability of pea plants to self fertilize be a problem for genetic experiments?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. Self fertile plants tend to be weaker and require more care.

  2. Self fertile plants are not able to produce viable seeds due to inbreeding.

  3. Stamens must be removed from self fertile plants to control fertilization.

  4. Pistils of self fertile plants are unable to accept pollen from other plants.

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#Question id: 11503

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which process allowed the nucleomorphs of chlorarachniophytes to be first reduced, and then (in a few species) lost altogether, without the loss of any genetic information?

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#Question id: 11504

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which organisms represent the common ancestor of all photosynthetic plastids found in eukaryotes?

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#Question id: 11505

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

An individual mixotroph loses its plastids, yet continues to survive. Which of the following most likely accounts for its continued survival?

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#Question id: 11506

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

A biologist discovers a new unicellullar organism that possesses more than two flagella and two small, but equal-sized, nuclei. The organism has reduced

mitochondria (mitosomes), no chloroplasts, and is anaerobic. To which clade does this organism probably belong?

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#Question id: 11507

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which two genera have members that can evade the human immune system by frequently changing their surface proteins?

1.  Plasmodium

2.  Trichomonas

3.  Paramecium

4.  Trypanosoma

5.  Entamoeba

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#Question id: 11508

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms

Which of these taxa contains species that produce potent toxins that can cause extensive fish kills, contaminate shellfish, and poison humans?