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#Question id: 5248


Which of the following is a description of generalized transduction?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. Inaccurate excision of prophage can occasionally remove a small portion of the bacterial chromosome.

  2. Random pieces of bacterial dna can become incorporated into a phage coat.

  3. Pieces of bacterial DNA may be released into the culture medium when a cell is lysed.

  4. All of these.

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#Question id: 9618

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Generally, within a lineage, the largest number of shared derived characters should be found among two organisms that are members of the same

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#Question id: 9619

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A common ancestor for both species C and E could be at position number 

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#Question id: 9620

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The two extant species that are most closely related to each other are

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#Question id: 9621

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

If this evolutionary tree is an accurate depiction of relatedness, then which of the following should be correct?

1. The entire tree is based on maximum parsimony.

2. If all species depicted here make up a taxon, this taxon is monophyletic.

3. The last common ancestor of species B and C occurred more recently than the last common ancestor of species D and E.

4. Species A is the direct ancestor of both species B and species C.

5. The species present at position 3 is ancestral to C, D, and E


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#Question id: 9622

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms


Which of the following numbers represents a polyphyletic taxon? 

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#Question id: 10127

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

In higher plants, the multi-subunit protein supercomplex has two complete reaction centers and some antenna complexes. The core of the reaction center consists of two membrane proteins known as D1 and D2, Which contained a multi-subunit protein supercomplexes;