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#Question id: 12537


In terms of nutrient cycling, why does timber harvesting in a temperate forest cause less ecological devastation than timber harvesting in tropical rain forests?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Trees are generally smaller in temperate forests, so fewer nutrients will be removed from the temperate forest ecosystem during a harvest.
  2. Temperate forest tree species require fewer nutrients to survive than their tropical counterpart species, so a  harvest removes fewer nutrients from the temperate ecosystem.
  3. The warmer temperatures in the tropics influence rain forest species to assimilate nutrients more slowly, so tropical reforestation is much slower than temperate reforestation.
  4. Typical harvests remove up to 75% of the nutrients in the woody trunks of tropical rain forest trees, leav- ing nutrient-impoverished soils behind.
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#Question id: 3977

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which one of the following statements about eukaryotic RNA polymerases is correct?

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#Question id: 3978

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The 5'-terminal cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs is a(n):

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#Question id: 3979

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

“Housekeeping genes” in bacteria are commonly expressed constitutively, but not all of these genes are expressed at the same level (the same number of molecules per cell).  The primary mechanism responsible for variations in the level of constitutive enzymes from different genes is that:

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#Question id: 3980

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which of the following statements correctly describes promoters in E. coli?

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#Question id: 3981

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The diagram below represents a hypothetical operon in the bacterium E. coli.  The operon consists of two structural genes (A and B), which code for the enzymes A-ase and B-ase, respectively, and also includes P (promoter) and O (operator) regions as shown.

 When a certain compound (X) is added to the growth medium of E. coli, the separate enzymes A-ase and B-ase are both synthesized at a 50-fold higher rate than in the absence of X.  (X has a molecular weight of about 200.)  Which of the following statements is true of the operon decribed above?

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#Question id: 3982

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The diagram below represents a hypothetical operon in the bacterium E. coli.  The operon consists of two structural genes (A and B) that code for the enzymes A-ase and B-ase, respectively, and also includes P (promoter) and O (operator) regions as shown.

 When a certain compound (X) is added to the growth medium of E. coli, the separate enzymes A-ase and B-ase are both synthesized at a 50-fold higher rate than in the absence of X (which has a molecular weight of about 200).  Which one of the following statements is true of such an operon?