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#Question id: 522


Yeast will normally convert pyruvate to ethanol. Why is this better for the yeast than a conversion to lactate?

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
  1. Conversion to ethanol releases more NAD+ per mole than the conversion to lactate.

  2. The carbon atoms are more oxidized in ethanol than in lactate.

  3. Ethanol is neutral, but lactate production is accompanied by a sharp decrease in pH.

  4. Ethanol production is not better. Yeast normally produces ethanol and lactate in equilmolar amounts.

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#Question id: 13018

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Generalized global air circulation and precipitation patterns are caused by

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#Question id: 13019

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Air masses formed over the Pacific Ocean are moved by prevailing westerlies where they encounter extensive north- south mountain ranges, such as the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades. Which statement best describes the changes that these air masses undergo?

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#Question id: 13020

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Experts in deer ecology generally agree that population sizes of deer that live in temperate climates are limited by winter snow. The deer congregate in ?yarding? areas under evergreen trees because venturing out to feed in winter is energetically too expensive when snowfall depths accumulate to above 40 cm. Deer often stay yarded until the spring thaw. Snow depth over 40 inches for more than 60 days results in high mortality due to starvation.  This observation best illustrates which of the following principles about factors that limit distribution of organisms?

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#Question id: 13021

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which marine zone would have the lowest rates of primary productivity (photosynthesis)? 

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#Question id: 13022

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A certain species of pine tree survives only in scattered locations at elevations above 2,800 m in the western United States. To understand why this tree grows only in these specific places an ecologist should

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#Question id: 13168

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Use the following diagram from the text showing the spread of the cattle egret, Bulbulcus ibis, since its arrival in the New World, to answer the following question.


How would an ecologist likely explain the expansion of the cattle egret?