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#Question id: 11982

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. A cat kills a mouse to obtain food.
  2. A male sheep fights with another male because it helps it to improve its social position and find a mate. 
  3. A female bird lays its eggs because the amount of daylight is decreasing slightly each day.
  4. A goose squats and freezes motionless because that behavior helps it to escape a predator.
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#Question id: 27358

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Choose the correct statement regarding singlet and triplet state
1. singlet state is short lived, net angular momentum and spin quantum number, s is zero
2. singlet state is long lived, net angular momentum and spin quantum number, s is one
3. Triplet state is long lived , net angular momentum and spin quantum number, s is one
4. Triplet state is short lived net angular momentum and spin quantum number, s is zero
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#Question id: 12957

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is related to the phenomenon of:
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#Question id: 11721

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The induction of α-amylase synthesis in barley aleurone layers by gibberellin, given some statements about after the induction of GA into the aleurone layer, and allows some transcriptional gene function inside the nucleus such as;

a) GA-MYB is a negative regulator of α-amylase transcription

b) The sequence of the gibberellic acid response element (GARE) in the α-amylase gene promoter is similar to the DNA sequence to which MYB proteins bind.

c) Synthesis of GA-MYB mRNA begins to increase as early as 1 h after gibberellin treatment, preceding the increase in a-amylase mRNA by several  hours

d) A mutation in the GARE that prevents MYB binding also prevents  α-amylase expression.

e) GA-MYB can therefore be defined as a primary or early response gene, while the α-amylase gene is a secondary or late response gene

f) The secretory pathway requires GA stimulation of the calcium-calmodulin– independent pathway.

Which of the following statements is incorrect about this transcriptional gene?
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#Question id: 13090

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

To express a yeast gene in E. coli, your task is to design a strategy to insert the yeast gene into the bacterial plasmid. Below is a map of the area of the yeast genome surrounding the gene in which you are interested.

 
The distance between each tick mark placed on the line above is 100 bases in length
Below are the enzymes you can use, with their specific cut sites shown 5’-XXXXXX-3’ 3’-XXXXXX-5’

 
The plasmid is 5,000 bases long and the two farthest restriction enzyme sites are 200 bases apart. The plasmid has an ampicillin resistance gene somewhere on the plasmid distal from the restriction cut sites.
                              
You do the digestion of the insert and the vector and then ligate the two digestions together. You then transform the ligation into bacteria and select for ampicillin resistance. You get three colonies on your transformation plate. You isolate plasmid from each one and cut each plasmid with the enzyme XbaI. You then run your three digestions on an agarose gel and see the following patterns of bands. Describe what each plasmid actually was that was contained in each of the three colonies.
 
What is the Colony 3’s plasmid is;
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#Question id: 19345

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

The magnetoelectric and piezoelectric are types of _____ based biosensors?