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#Question id: 9191


When an arborist prunes a limb off a valuable tree, he or she usually paints the cut surface. The primary purpose of the paint is to

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. minimize water loss by evaporation from the cut surface.
  2. improve the appearance of the cut surface.
  3. stimulate growth of the cork cambium to ʺhealʺ the wound.
  4. block entry of pathogens through the wound.
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#Question id: 13164

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Match the following.

Column I

Column II

Column III

A. G Protein–Coupled Receptors That

Activate PDE

i. cAMP

a. Increase in conversion of glycogen to glucose

B. G Protein–Coupled Receptors That

Activate Adenylyl Cyclase

ii. cGMP

b. Hyperpolarization or depolarization of photoreceptor membrane

C. G Protein–Coupled Receptors That

inhibit Adenylyl Cyclase

iii. DAG

c. activates genes necessary for cell division

D. G Protein–Coupled Receptors

That Trigger Elevations in Cytosolic and

Mitochondrial Calcium

 

d. increase in K+ permeability hyperpolarizes the

membrane

Which one of the following is correct?

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#Question id: 24575

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

If the initial population size 1000 then given population birth rate is 0.55, and death rate is 0.45, then calculate the change in population per unit time?

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#Question id: 11277

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

If a species is a keystone predator, then its removal from a community should

(A) Increase population size of the predator’s preferred prey

(B) decrease species diversity in the prey community

(C) decrease productivity of the predator’s preferred prey

(D) increase species diversity in the prey community

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#Question id: 16096

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

heat stroke is characteristically associated with

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#Question id: 9273

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

In the higher excited state, chlorophyll is extremely unstable; it rapidly gives up some of its energy to the surroundings as heat, and enters the lowest excited state, the excited chlorophyll has four alternative pathways for disposing of its available energy: fluorescence, Heat loss, energy transfer, photochemistry; all process takes place in which wavelength,