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#Question id: 11762


Typically as cells grow, their increase in volume outpaces their increase in surface area, and continued survival requires undergoing asexual reproduction to reestablish a healthy surface area to volume ratio. Thus, which of these is least likely to contribute to the ability of a single-celled foraminiferan to grow to a diameter of several centimeters?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. Its thread like pseudopods dramatically increase its surface area to volume ratio.
  2. Its symbiotic algae provide oxygen to the cytoplasm.

  3. Its symbiotic algae absorb metabolic waste products from the cytoplasm.

  4. Its calcium carbonate test contributes extra mass

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

are small molecules that function as adapters between amino acids and codons.

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Experiments conducted by Francisco Ayala with fruit flies and by David Pimentel with houseflies and blowflies have demonstrated the rather interesting phenomenon that __________.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which one of the following will be observed when auxin to cytokinin ratio is increased in the culture medium during organogenesis from tobacco pith callus?

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#Question id: 2589

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Following statements are regarding to the mechanism of thick filament regulation.

A. In vertebrate smooth muscle, phosphorylation of the myosin regulatory light chain (LC) activates contraction.

B. At Ca2+ concentrations of more than 10−6 M, the regulatory light chain is not phosphorylated, and the myosin adopts a folded conformation.

C. When the Ca2+ level rises, Ca2+ binds calmodulin (CaM), which undergoes a conformational change (CaM*). The CaM*-Ca2+ complex binds and activates myosin light chain kinase (MLC kinase), which then phosphorylates the myosin LC. This phosphorylation event unfolds the myosin II, which is now active and can assemble into bipolar filaments to participate in contraction.

D. When the Ca2+ levels drop, the myosin LC is dephosphorylated by myosin light-chain (MLC) phosphatase, which is dependent on Ca2+ for activity, causing muscle relaxation.

Which of the following combination is correct?

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#Question id: 11594

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Given some compounds that are the first stage inhibitor of gibberellin biosynthesis except?