Laurie met her husband Jim at a support group for families dealing with PKU (phenylketonurea), a recessive genetic disorder. Laurie and Jim both have one sister who is affected with PKU and no other family history of the disorder. They come to you as a genetic counselor to ask what their risk is of having an affected child. What do you tell them?

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#Question id: 7760

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In general, the hormones that regulate senescence can be divided into two basic categories based on their most commonly observed effects:

I) positive (promoting) senescence regulators and

II) negative (repressing) senescence regulators

a) Hormones involved-Ethylene, Abscisic acid (ABA)

b) Hormones involved-Brassinosteroids (BRs), Salicylic acid (SA), Jasmonic acid (JA)

c) Hormones involved-Cytokinin, Auxin, Gibberellin (GAs)

Select correct combinations from given hormones which are involved in regulators?

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#Question id: 7762

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Correlation between life span and the ability of fibroblasts to repair DNA in various mammalian species, Repair capacity is represented in autoradiography by the number of grains from radioactive thymidine per cell nucleus. According to graph, which factor exist on x-axis ? Note that the y-axis (life span) is logarithmic.

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#Question id: 7763

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Two major sources of mutation are radiation and reactive oxygen species (ROS).The reactive oxygen species hypothesis for aging postulates that 

1) Senescence results from the accumulation of DNA, lipid, and protein damage inflicted by ROS of mitochondrial origin; and

2) Mitochondria of long-lived species should produce high ROS than do mitochondria of short-lived species.

3) the capacity of mitochondria to consume ROS might distinguish long-lived species from short-lived species, rather than differences in ROS generation. 

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#Question id: 13165

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

One of the main ways by which the insulin signaling pathway might function to lower longevity is to activate mTORC1, a protein kinase complex that promotes the translation of mRNA into proteins in response to nutrients and hormones, select incorrect statement;

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#Question id: 7286

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the floral whorls is affected in apetala 3/pistillata (ap3/pi) mutants?

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#Question id: 7305

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In plants, a growing mass of unorganized and undifferentiated cells that cover a wound; these cells can be induced to form a plant meristem and develop into shoots and/or roots called as