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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

Student A had an allergic reaction to the food, causing him to perceive the food as being bitter.
Student A has normal "bitter" taste buds; student B has defective "bitter" taste buds that result in lower sensitivity to bitterness.
Student A has a protein receptor capable of detecting a bitter molecule found in that substance, whereas student B lacks that particular protein receptor.
Student A has normal saliva, whereas student B's saliva is more alkaline than normal.

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#Question id: 13065

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Precision will be reduced, but yield will be increased

Optimisation of a PCR reaction is often a compromise between the competing demands for precision, efficiency and yield. Although the specific effects may vary, generally, increasing the annealing temperature will increase non-specific primer binding and reduce precision. Increasing the length of the elongation phase will reduce the proportion of incomplete newly-synthesised strands and therefore increase yield. In this case, the potential effect on efficiency is unclear. Increasing the elongation phase would increase the reaction time, but the time taken to ramp down to a lower annealing temperature would be reduced.

Agglutination of antigens by utilising specific antibodies can only occur, if

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#Question id: 13066

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Precision will be reduced, but yield will be increased Optimisation of a PCR reaction is often a compromise between the competing demands for precision, efficiency and yield. Although the specific effects may vary, generally, increasing the annealing temperature will increase non-specific primer binding and reduce precision. Increasing the length of the elongation phase will reduce the proportion of incomplete newly-synthesised strands and therefore increase yield. In this case, the potential effect on efficiency is unclear. Increasing the elongation phase would increase the reaction time, but the time taken to ramp down to a lower annealing temperature would be reduced.

Which of the following is a codominant marker?

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#Question id: 13067

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

The first immunoassay formats described were methods based on the ____ reaction, which is characterised either by gel formation in a liquid phase or as an opaque band in an agar plate assay.

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#Question id: 13068

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Coating antibody; which actively traps antigen

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#Question id: 13069

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

A negative agglutination test may NOT indicate the

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#Question id: 13070

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Antibodies raised against an antigen from one organism will react to a greater or lesser degree with similar antigens from a related organism, depending on how many surface epitopes they share. This has given rise to a systematic method of identification of microorganisms known as______?