The sharp transition seen in Figure suggests that

A. Proteins can be denatured by any treatment that disrupts the weak bonds stabilizing tertiary structure, such as heating, or by chemical denaturants such as urea or guanidinium chloride.

B. A comparison of the degree of unfolding as the concentration of denaturant increases reveals a sharp transition from the folded, or native, form to the unfolded, or denatured form, suggesting that only these two conformational states are present to any significant extent.

C. A similar sharp transition is observed if denaturants are removed from unfolded proteins, allowing the proteins to fold.

D. Protein folding and unfolding is an “all or none” process that results from a cooperative transition .

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Natural selection continually operates on each species to keep up with improvements made by competing species; each species’ environment deteriorates as its competitors evolve new adaptations. This is known as

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 In a human population, the gene frequencies of the alleles for the ABO system are as follows:

A = 29%                         B = 7%                                    0=64%

Assuming complete random mating and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,

What are the blood type A frequencies in this population?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which statement is not an assumption of the Hardy–Weinberg law?

a. The allelic frequencies (p and q) are equal.

b. The population is randomly mating.

c. The population is large.

d. Locus is di-allelic

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Migration causes changes in the allelic frequency of a population by introducing alleles from other populations. The magnitude of change due to migration depends on

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

If, someday, an archaean cell is discovered whose SSU-rRNA sequence is more similar to that of humans than the sequence of mouse SSU-rRNA is to that of humans, the best explanation for this apparent discrepancy would be

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Dog breeders maintain the purity of breeds by keeping dogs of different breeds apart when they are fertile. This kind of isolation is most similar to which of the following reproductive isolating mechanisms?