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#Question id: 2018

What aspect of the immune response would a patient who has a parasitic worm infection and another patient responding to an allergen such as ragweed pollen have in common?

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Both patients would have an increase in cytotoxic T cell number.
Both patients would have increased levels of IgE.
Both patients would risk development of an autoimmune disease.
Both patients would be suffering from a decreased level of innate immunity.

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#Question id: 30107

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Major controls of de novo AMP synthesis include:

1. allosteric inhibition by GMP.

2. allosteric inhibition by AMP.

3. availability of PRPP.

4. stimulation by GTP.

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#Question id: 16317

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Developmental stress:

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#Question id: 19371

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

A great and notable example of the achievements of this second phase

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#Question id: 12529

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

During the mid- to late stages of seed development, specific mRNAs accumulate in embryos, These mRNAs encode so-called late-embryogenesis-abundant (LEA) proteins thought to be involved in desiccation tolerance. This mRNA accumulation in embryo at the time of high levels of which endogenous hormone?

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#Question id: 865

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

In autophagy, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) first gives rise to a cup-shaped, membranous cisterna called the______