Tomato plants produce tomatine, a compound that is closely related to avenacin. Only certain pathovars of the fungal pathogen Septoria lycopersici can cause disease on tomatoes, and these pathovars produce a glucosidase that can detoxify tomatine.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Drugs that block protein synthesis block a new round of replication, but not continuation of replication.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The homologue of β-catenin in Drosophila is Armadillo.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Molecular clock - The concept of a steady rate of change in DNA sequences over time. 

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Kinesin-13 (End-Binding Proteins)

• Bind and curve the end of the tubulin protofilaments into the GDP-β-tubulin conformation

• Facilitate the removal of terminal tubulin dimers 

• Greatly enhancing the frequency of catastrophes

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Diastolic pressure is the lowest arterial pressure in the arteries during ventricular relaxation when no blood is being ejected from the left ventricle.