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#Question id: 7147


How does lateral inhibition work to specify individual neurons in the neural epithelium of invertebrates and vertebrates?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. Prospective neurons first arise in a cluster, but then, by chance, one cell will come to signal more strongly through Delta and Notch than its neighbors and become the only neuron in the cluster, by inhibiting its neighbors' specification as neurons.
  2. Stripes of prospective neurons will inhibit formation of neurons in stripes lateral to themselves.
  3. A gradient of inhibition spreads from the cells lateral to the neural epithelium, inhibiting their specification of neurons until a threshold is reached, at which point a single neuron is permitted to develop.
  4. Only one cell in each cluster of prospective neurons is fated to become a neuron, and it does so by inhibiting neural development in its lateral neighbors.
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#Question id: 389

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

A weak acid HA has a pKa of 5.0.  If 1.0 mol of this acid and 0.1 mol of NaOH were dissolved in one liter of water, what would the final pH be?

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#Question id: 390

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

What are the properties arising due to varying concentrations of solute in a given solvent, irrespective of the nature of solute with respect to the solvent?

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#Question id: 391

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

In a hospital laboratory, a 10.0 mL sample of gastric juice, obtained several hours after a meal, was titrated with 0.1 M NaOH to neutrality; 7.2 mL of NaOH was required. The patient’s stomach contained no ingested food or drink, thus assume that no buffers were present. What was the pH of the gastric juice?

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#Question id: 392

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

When an ionic compound such as sodium chloride (NaCl) is placed in water, the component atoms of the NaCl crystal dissociate into individual sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-). In contrast, the atoms of covalently bonded molecules (e.g., glucose, sucrose, glycerol) do not generally dissociate when placed in aqueous solution. Which of the following solutions would be expected to contain the greatest number of solute particles (molecules or ions)?

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#Question id: 393

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is readily soluble in water, according to the equation CO2 + H2O ↔ H2CO3. Carbonic acid (H2CO3) is a weak acid. If CO2 is bubbled into a beaker containing pure, freshly distilled water, which of the following graphs correctly describes the results?

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#Question id: 394

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

What will be the H+ ion concentration in a solution prepared by mixing 50.0 mL of 0.20 M NaCl, 25 mL of 0.10M NaOH and 25.0 mL of 0.30M HCl?