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#Question id: 4641


Which of the following statements is an inference of natural selection?

#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
  1. Subsequent generations of a population should have greater proportions of individuals that possess traits better suited for success in unchanging environments.

  2. An individual organism undergoes evolution over the course of its lifetime.

  3. Habitats do not generally have unlimited resources.

  4. Natural populations tend to reproduce to their full biological potential.

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#Question id: 858

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Unfolded protein response (UPR)

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#Question id: 859

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Which one statement is incorrect about ATG genes;

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#Question id: 860

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Select true ‘T’ AND false ‘F’ about ubiquitinylation

I. These ubiquitin-like modifiers control processes as diverse as nuclear import,

II. Regulated by the ubiquitin-like modifier Sumo, and autophagy,

III. Regulated by the ubiquitin-like modifier Atg8.

IV. For a protein to be efficiently degraded, it must be linked to a chain of at least four tandemly linked ubiquitin molecules in which Lys 34 of each ubiquitin forms an isopeptide bond with the C-terminal carboxyl group of the following ubiquitin.

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#Question id: 861

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Alexander Varshavsky discovered, the half-lives of many cytoplasmic proteins vary with the identities of their N-terminal residues via the so-called N-end rule:-

A. Destabilizing N-terminal residues Asp, Arg, Leu, Lys, and Phe have half-lives of

i. Only 2 to 3 minutes,

B. Stabilizing N-terminal residues Ala, Gly, Met, Ser, Thr, and Val have half-lives of

ii. >10 hours in prokaryotes

iii. >20 hours in eukaryotes.

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#Question id: 862

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Match the following

lysosomal protein degradation pathwaysFound in
1. Nonselectivea-well-nourished cells

i-containing the pentapeptide

Lys-Phe-Glu-Arg-Gln

2- Selectiveb-starving cells

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#Question id: 863

#Unit 1. Structure and Function of Biomolecules

Ubiquitinated proteins are proteolytically degraded in an ATP-dependent process mediated by a large (∼2500 kD, 26S) multiprotein complex named the 26S proteasome;