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#Question id: 4628


Which group is composed entirely of individuals who maintained that species are fixed (i.e., unchanging)?

A) Linnaeus

B) Lyell

C) Darwin

D) Aristotle

E) Cuvier

#Zoology
  1. A, B, C           

  2. A, D, E

  3. B, C, D               

  4. C, D, E

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#Question id: 40218

#Environmental Science

Match the concepts/experiments in List I with the scientists in List II.

List I (Concept/Experiment)List II (Scientist)
A. Hot Dilute Soup (Prebiotic Soup)I. Francesco Redi
B. Panspermia (Cosmozoic Theory)II. J.B.S. Haldane
C. Maggots in decaying meat experimentIII. Richter & Arrhenius
D. Omne vivum ex vivo (Biogenesis)IV. Louis Pasteur

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#Question id: 40219

#Environmental Science

Match the evolutionary stages in List I with their defining characteristics in List II

List I (Evolutionary Stage)List II (Characteristics)
A. ChemoheterotrophsI. First oxygen-producing photosynthesizers (Cyanobacteria)
B. ChemoautotrophsII. Earliest life forms; absorbed organic molecules from the environment
C. Photoautotrophs (Anoxygenic)III. Synthesized food using chemical energy (inorganic substrates)
D. Photoautotrophs (Oxygenic)IV. Used sunlight but H2S instead of water; did not release Oxygen

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#Question id: 40220

#Applied Microbiology

Which component of a plasmid vector allows a researcher to distinguish between host cells that have taken up the plasmid and those that have not?

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#Question id: 40221

#Applied Microbiology

 A gene incorporated into a vector that confers a trait suitable for artificial selection of transformed cells (e.g., survival on ampicillin-containing agar) is best known as a: 

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#Question id: 40222

#Applied Microbiology

 many cloning vectors, an antibiotic resistance gene is used for ________, while a gene like lacZ (for blue-white color change) is often used for ________.

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#Question id: 40223

#Applied Microbiology

An E. coli cell that successfully takes up a pBR322 plasmid (which carries ampicillin and tetracycline resistance genes) will be able to grow on: