A prime factor promoting the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands was the

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

A research lab is trying to produce new antibiotics. They come up with drugs that detach the hydrophilic heads from the phospholipids in plasma membranes. This drug

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Bacillus and Clostridium are medically relevant groups of bacteria that characteristically stain 

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Although O side chains are readily recognized by host antibodies, gram negative bacteria may thwart host defenses by 

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Plasmids are not required for host growth and reproduction, although they may carry genes that give their bacterial host a selective advantage. Plasmid genes can render  bacteria 

1. Drug-resistant 

2. Give new metabolic abilities 

3. Make them pathogenic

Which among the following combinations is correct?

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Careful electron microscopic studies often have shown the nucleoids are present in contact. Thus bacterial DNA is attached to

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Inclusion bodies are enclosed by a membrane about 2.0 to 4.0 nm thick, which is single-layered and not a typical bilayer membrane. They are 

1. Poly β hydroxybutyrate granules

2. cyanophycin granules

3. Glycogen granules

4. Sulfur granules

5. Gas vacuoles

6. Polyphosphate granules

Which option is having correct combinations?