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#Question id: 11544


When a steroid hormone and a polypeptide hormone exert similar effects on a population of target cells, then ________.

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. the steroid and polypeptide hormones must use the same biochemical mechanisms
  2. the steroid and polypeptide hormones must bind to the same receptor protein
  3. the steroid hormones affect the synthesis of effector proteins, whereas polypeptide hormones activate effector proteins already present in the cell
  4. the steroid hormones affect the activity of certain proteins within the cell, whereas polypeptide hormones directly affect the processing of mRNA

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#Question id: 7296

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

some of the following statements regarding to this experiment are given below. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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#Question id: 7297

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

How is the ABC model for floral identity in Arabidopsis similar to the models for homeotic gene function derived from studies in Drosophila?

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#Question id: 7298

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In what way are the homeotic genes of flowering plants similar to those of Drosophila and other animals?

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#Question id: 7299

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Maintenance of the shoot meristems in adult Arabidopsis plants relies on which of the following mechanisms?

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#Question id: 7300

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Following genes regulate flowering, column I represents genes, column II represents transcription factor family and column III represents functions.

Column I

Column II

Column III

A. FLOWERING D (FD)

i. bZIP

a. Activates flowering

downstream of florigen

B. SUPPRESSOR OF

OVEREXPRESSION OF

CONSTANS1 (SOC1)

ii. MADS

b. Receptor for florigen

C. FLOWERING LOCUS C

 

c. Class E homeotic genes

D. SEPALLATA (SEP)

 

d. Floral repressor

 Which of the following is correct?

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#Question id: 7301

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

An Rajasthani hunter was worried about being attacked by grizzly tigers, so he left the lights in his cabin on all the time. Plants near the cabin flowered a month early. Which of the following best explains this?