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#Question id: 5768


Exposure to gamma radiation leads to severe damage to DNA.  The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive exposure to levels of gamma radiation that would kill any other known organism.  This organism is able to survive because

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. it is covered with a very thick cell wall that blocks radiation

  2. it produces its own mutagens that quickly revert mutations that result from radiation exposure

  3. it has several very efficient DNA repair systems

  4. it has hundreds of copies of its chromosome so it has a good chance of at least one surviving

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#Question id: 4990

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Fly species W, found in a certain part of the island, produces fertile offspring with species Y. Species W does not produce fertile offspring with species X or Z. If no other species can hybridize, then species W and Y

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#Question id: 4991

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of these fly organs, as they exist in current fly populations, best fits the description of an exaptation?

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#Question id: 4992

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The existence of the phenomenon of exaptation is most closely associated with which of the following reasons that natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms?

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#Question id: 4993

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

If the prokaryotic flagellum developed from assemblages of proteins that originally were not involved with cell motility but with some other function instead, then the modern prokaryotic flagellum is a(n)

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#Question id: 4994

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In certain motile prokaryotes, dozens of different proteins comprise the motor that powers the prokaryotic flagellum. The motor has a complicated structure, and its various proteins interact to carry out its function. Based on Darwinʹs explanation for the existence of human eyes, how would he probably have explained the existence of such motors?

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#Question id: 4995

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

It has been found that certain proteins of the complex motor that drives bacterial flagella are modified versions of proteins that had previously belonged to plasma membrane pumps. This is evidence in support of the claim that