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.

A restriction enzyme cleaves a circular plasmid vector to produce fragments : 1kb, 0.3kb, 2kb, 1kb and 0.3kb. How many bands will be visible on agarose gel?

#Question id: 11285

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Terrestrial herbivores are animals that eat only plants and their digestive systems contain microbes that aid in the digestion of cellulose, Carnivores eat primarily animal flesh or fluids. Which of the following is correct is correct statement?

#Question id: 11286

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Consumption, assimilation, and production efficiencies are measures of ecological efficiency. Following some statements are correct?

(A) Consumption efficiencies for carnivores are typically higher than those of herbivores

(B) Assimilation efficiencies of herbivore are often less than consumption efficiencies

(C) Vertebrates tend to have lower production efficiencies than invertebrates

#Question id: 11287

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What is value of evenness in community 3 and 4 respectively?

#Question id: 11288

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Below is a table showing the number of species and actual food web links observed in three different ecosystems. By calculating connectance as a measure of relative complexity of food webs, which of the following ecosystem are more complex? 

#Question id: 11289

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Consumption efficiency (CE) is the proportion of production at one trophic level (Prodn n-1) that is eaten by, or ingested, by the next trophic level (In) but Assimilation efficiency (AE) is the proportion of ingested energy assimilated in to blood stream

Which of the following is incorrect statement?

A) In terrestrial herbivore, AE is greater than CE

B) In aquatic herbivore AE is equal to CE 

C) CE of grass land herbivore is often greater than forest herbivore

D) AE of herbivore is often greater than carnivore

#Question id: 11290

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following statement are incorrect?