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#Question id: 2870


In Escherichia coli, the synthesis of tryptophan is controlled by the tryptophan operon that is repressed in the presence of excessive tryptophan. When a mutant strain that has lost the regulatory gene of the tryptophan operon is placed in a medium that contains all nutrients the cells need to grow except tryptophan, which of the following will occur?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. The cells will continue to grow even though excess tryptophan is synthesized.

  2. The cells will grow until excessive tryptophan arrests the expression of the operon.

  3. The cells will not grow until enough tryptophan has been synthesized to activate the corepressor.

  4.  The cells will never grow unless tryptophan is added to the medium.

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#Question id: 11206

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Tetrodotoxin blocks voltage-gated sodium channels, and ouabain blocks sodium-potassium pumps. If you added both tetrodotoxin and ouabain to a solution containing neural tissue, what responses would you expect?

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#Question id: 24212

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Choose the correct statement
a. Hexokinases IV remains sequesters in the nucleus in case of high F-6-P and high ATP
b. Hexokinases IV remains sequesters in the cytoplasm in case of high F-6-P and high ATP
c. Hexokinase requires Mg+2 for its activity, because the true substrate of the enzyme is not ATP4- but the MgATP2- complex.
d. Hexokinase requires Mg+2 for its activity, because the true substrate of the enzyme is MgATP4- but not the MgATP2- complex.

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#Question id: 11924

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The largest seaweeds belong to which group?

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#Question id: 814

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following uncommon amino acids are not found in the proteins?

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#Question id: 4973

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Fossils of Lystrosaurus, a dicynodont therapsid, are most common in parts of modern-day South America, South Africa, Madagascar, India, South Australia, and Antarctica. It apparently lived in arid regions, and was mostly herbivorous. It originated during the mid-Permian period, survived the Permian extinction, and dwindled by the late Triassic, though there is evidence of a relict population in Australia during the Cretaceous. The dicynodonts had two large tusks, extending down from their upper jaws; the tusks were not used for food gathering, and in some species were limited to males. Food was gathered using an otherwise toothless beak. Judging from the fossil record, these pig-sized organisms were the most common mammal-like reptiles of the Permian.Which of Lystrosaurusʹ features help explain why these organisms fossilized so abundantly?

I. the presence of hard parts, such as tusks

II. its herbivorous diet

III. its persistence across at least two geological eras

IV. its widespread geographic distribution

V. its mixture of reptilian and mammalian features