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#Question id: 9607

The common housefly belongs to all of the following taxa. Assuming you had access to textbooks or other scientific literature, knowing which of the following should provide you with the most specific information about the common housefly?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. order Diptera
  2. family Muscidae
  3. genus Musca
  4. class Hexapoda
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#Question id: 7282

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In humans, neural tube closure defects occur in about 1 in every 1000 live births. Failure to close the neural tube can result from both genetic and environmental causes. A recent report has demonstrated that zinc deficiency disrupts neural tube closure by:
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#Question id: 10922

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The non-reducing sugar sucrose is most commonly translocated in the phloem rather than reducing sugar. Why?

 a.) because they are less reactive than their reducing counterparts

 b.) because sucrose contains more energy than a monosaccharides

 c.) because the ketone or aldehyde group is reduced to an alcohol or combined with a similar group on another sugar so as not to be oxidized

 Which one of the following statements is true about translocation of non-reducing sugar?
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#Question id: 10366

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Cyanobacteria can fixes nitrogen in an anaerobic conditions. Which of the following statements about heterocyst which is specialized cell of blue-green algae is incorrect?
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#Question id: 597

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

The Km values for enzyme reactions such as A + B → C + D
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#Question id: 15153

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In this problem we will explore some of the many ways that mutations in two different genes can interact to produce different Mendelian ratios. Consider a hypothetical insect species that has red eyes. Imagine mutations in two different unlinked genes that can, in certain combinations, block the formation of red eye pigment yielding mutants with white eyes. In principle, there are two different possible arrangements for two biochemical steps responsible for the formation of red eye pigment. The two genes might act in series such that a mutation in either gene would block the formation of red pigment. Alternatively, the two genes could act in parallel such that mutations in both genes would be required to block the formation of red pigment.
Further complexity arises from the possibility that mutations in either gene that lead to a block in enzymatic activity could be either dominant or recessive. If the crosses is made between a wild type insect with red eyes and a true breeding white eyed strain with mutations in both genes. Such considerations yield the Pathways in parallel with recessive mutations in both genes, determine the phenotype of the F1 progeny and the expected phenotypic ratio of red to white eyed insects in the F2.