A researcher introduces double-stranded RNA into a culture of mammalian cells and can identify its location or that of its smaller subsections experimentally, using a fluorescent probe. When she finds that the introduced strand separates into single-stranded RNAs, what other evidence of this single-stranded RNA piece's activity would she find?

#Question id: 11037

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A 22-year-old man has a muscle blood flow of 250 ml/min and a hematocrit of 50. He has a mean arterial pressure of 130 mm Hg, a muscle venous pressure of 5 mm Hg, and a heart rate of 80 beats/min. Which of the following is the approximate vascular resistance in the muscle of this man?

#Question id: 2970

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Describe how Cdc14 triggers the exit from mitosis in the budding yeast, S. cerevisiae.

#Question id: 11165

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane lipids in tissue samples obtained from different parts of a reindeer’s leg have different fatty acid compositions. Membrane lipids from tissue near the hooves contain a larger proportion of unsaturated fatty acids than those from tissue in the upper leg. What is the significance of this observation?

#Question id: 3054

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

A pure culture in exponential growth phase has a bacterial concentration of 6.4 x 10^8 cells/ml. If the bacterium has a generation time of 1 h, how long ago was the cell concentration 8.0 x 10^7 cells/ml?

#Question id: 19870

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology