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#Question id: 12792


Many  homeowners mow  their  lawns  during the  summer and  collect  the  clippings,  which  are  then  hauled to  the local landfill. Which of the following actions would most benefit the local ecosystem?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Allow sheep to graze the lawn and then collect the sheep's feces to be delivered to the landfill. 
  2. Collect the lawn clippings and burn them.
  3. Either  collect  the  clippings  and  add  them to  a  compost pile,  or  don't  collect  the  clippings  and  let  them decompose into the lawn.
  4. Collect the clippings and wash them into the nearest storm sewer that feeds into the local lake.
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#Question id: 11124

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A researcher compared the nucleotide sequences of a homologous gene from five different species of mammals with the homologous human gene. The sequence homology between each speciesʹ version of the gene and the human gene is presented as a percentage of similarity.

What probably explains the inclusion of rabbits in this research?

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#Question id: 1402

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which of the following oncoproteins possess(es) protein kinase activity?

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#Question id: 3420

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Following are key points about the effect of genetic drift:

A. Genetic drift is significant in small populations.

B. Genetic drift can cause allele frequencies to change in a pre-directed way.

C. Genetic drift can lead to a loss of genetic variation within populations.

D. Genetic drift can cause harmful alleles to become fixed.

Which one of the following combination of the above statements are true?

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#Question id: 10682

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

if 30 individuals of species 2 take up the same amount of resources as 5 individual of species 1 then the per capita competitive effects on species 1 of species 2 is

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#Question id: 15146

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You have isolated a set of five yeast mutants that form dark red colonies instead of the usual white colonies of wild-type yeast. You cross each of the mutants to a wild-type haploid strain and obtain the results shown below;
What do these results tell you about each of the mutants?