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#Question id: 11484


Two students studying physiology taste a known "bitter" substance, and both report sensing bitterness. They then sample another substance. Student A reports sensing both a bitter taste and a salty taste, but student B reports only a salty taste. What is the most logical explanation?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Student A had an allergic reaction to the food, causing him to perceive the food as being bitter.
  2. Student A has normal "bitter" taste buds; student B has defective "bitter" taste buds that result in lower sensitivity to bitterness.
  3. Student A has a protein receptor capable of detecting a bitter molecule found in that substance, whereas student B lacks that particular protein receptor.

  4. Student A has normal saliva, whereas student B's saliva is more alkaline than normal.
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#Question id: 8707

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Use the figure to answer the following question


The phylogenetic tree shown ________.

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#Question id: 8708

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Concerning growth in genome size over evolutionary time, which of these is least associated with the others?

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#Question id: 8709

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Eukaryotes that are not closely related and that do not share many anatomical similarities can still be placed together on the same phylogenetic tree by comparing their ________.

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#Question id: 8710

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A phylogenetic tree constructed using sequence differences in mitochondrial DNA would be most valid for discerning the evolutionary relatedness of ________.

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#Question id: 8712

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma. These species have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10 thousand years ago. Sequencing which of the following would probably be most useful in sorting out evolutionary relationships among these closely related species?

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#Question id: 8713

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which statement represents the best explanation for the observation that the nuclear DNA of wolves and domestic dogs has a very high degree of sequence homology? Dogs and wolves ________.