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#Question id: 8704


To apply the principle of maximum parsimony to construction of a phylogenetic tree, ________.

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. choose the tree that assumes all evolutionary changes are equally probable
  2. choose the tree in which the branch points are based on as many shared derived characters as possible
  3. choose the tree that represents the fewest evolutionary changes, either in DNA sequences or morphology
  4. choose the tree with the fewest branch points
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#Question id: 624

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

The following data were obtained in a study of an enzyme known to follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics: The Km for this enzyme is approximately:

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#Question id: 623

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of these statements about enzyme-catalyzed reactions is false?

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#Question id: 622

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

An enzyme-catalyzed reaction was carried out with the substrate concentration initially a thousand times greater than the Km for that substrate.  After 9 minutes, 1% of the substrate had been converted to product, and the amount of product formed in the reaction mixture was 12 micromol.  If, in a separate experiment, one-third as much enzyme and twice as much substrate had been combined, how long would it take for the same amount (12 micromol) of product to be formed?

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#Question id: 621

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Michaelis and Menten assumed that the overall reaction for an enzyme-catalyzed reaction could be written as Using this reaction, the rate of breakdown of the enzyme-substrate complex can be described by the expression:

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#Question id: 620

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following statements about a plot of V0 vs. [S] for an enzyme that follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics is false?

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#Question id: 619

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

The benefit of measuring the initial rate of a reaction V0 is that at the beginning of a reaction: