After the drought of 1977, researchers hypothesized that on the Galápagos Island Daphne Major, medium ground finches with large, deep beaks survived better than those with smaller beaks because they could more easily crack and eat the tough Tribulus cistoides fruits. A tourist company sets up reliable feeding stations with a variety of bird seeds (different types and sizes) so that tourists can get a better look at the finches. Which of these events is now most likely to occur to finch beaks on this island?

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#Question id: 7758

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Chlorophyll is tightly bound in complexes with proteins. During senescence these chlorophyll–protein complexes must be dismantled to allow the apoproteins to be recycled by___

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#Question id: 7759

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

WRKY plant-specific group of transcription factors that play important role in many plant metabolic and developmental processes such as;

a) It contain a 30 amino acid region named for the conserved amino acid sequence WRKYGQK in its N-terminal domain

b) It is an important regulators of plant–pathogen interactions as well as senescence

c) WRKY53 is involved in the regulation of dark-induced leaf senescence

d) In Arabidopsis, leaf senescence is delayed in knockout mutants of the WRKY53 gene

e) WRKY53 also binds to the promoter of the WRKY53 gene, inhibiting its own expression in a negative feedback loop

Which of the following given prediction about WRKY transcription factor is correct?

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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;