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#Question id: 7267


Endocrine disruptors can interfere with hormone function in many ways like, They can act as antagonists and inhibit the binding of a hormone to its receptor or block the synthesis of a hormone. which of the following example best explains the antagonistic effect of endocrine disruptors?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. The endocrine disruptor diethylstilbestrol (DES), which binds to the estrogen receptor and mimics estradiol, a hormone that is very active in building the tissues of the female reproductive tract.

  2. DDE, a metabolic product of the insecticide DDT, can act as an anti-testosterone, binding to the androgen receptor and preventing normal testosterone from functioning properly.
  3. The herbicide atrazine, elevates the synthesis of estrogen and can convert testes into ovaries in frogs.
  4. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) disrupt the endocrine system is by interfering with the elimination and degradation of thyroid hormones.
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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

What is probability of neutral mutation to be lost from the population size 100 and Probability of being homozygote in given population size 10 respectively?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

A biologist studied a population of squirrels for 15 years. During that time, the population was never fewer than 30 squirrels and never more than 45. Her data showed that over half of the squirrels born did not survive to reproduce, because of competition for food and predation. In a single generation, 90% of the squirrels that were born lived to reproduce, and the population increased to 80. Which inference(s) about this population might be true?

A) The amount of available food may have increased.

B) The number of predators may have decreased.

C) The squirrels of subsequent generations should show greater levels of genetic variation than previous generations, because squirrels that would not have survived in the past will now survive.

Choose correct combination,

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#Question id: 19990

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

If entire genome is encoding than mathematically human should have 106 genes but humans have only 30,000 to 50,000 genes this is representing