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#Question id: 683
#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
Which factor does not help to explain why many proteins exhibit quaternary structure?
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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling
Which type of experimental evidence shows that the intrinsic GTPase activity of the Gα subunit is important for terminating effector activation?
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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
A physiologist is studying the homeostatic control of blood pH. What type of receptor might be responsible for detecting changes in blood pH?
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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
When climbing a mountain, we can observe transitions in biological communities that are analogous to the changes
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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
The mussel Mytilus edulis thrives in saline habitats, in both the highly salty seawater of tidal zones and the less salty estuaries. This results in two kinds of populations: one adapted to the higher salt concentrations of the tidal zone, and one adapted to the lower salt concentrations of the estuary. It has been found that the more salt-tolerant populations have high frequencies of an allele that produces an enzyme involved in maintaining osmotic equilibrium. Conversely, estuarine mussels having the same enzyme seem to be disfavoured and have a much higher death rate than mussels without the allele. Adult estuarine populations do have lower frequencies of this allele. Each spring, large numbers of larvae from the salty habitats pour into the estuaries.
The invasion of the seawater larvae would be expected to facilitate change in the genetic structure of the estuarine population by a process called