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#Question id: 4976

Which of these is the most likely explanation for the existence of dicynodont fossils on modern-day Antarctica?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

  1. They arrived there aboard ʺraftsʺ of vegetation, and quickly adapted to the bitterly cold climate.

  2. Earthʹs polar regions were once so warm (especially immediately after the ʺsnowball Earth periodʺ) that reptiles and mammal-like reptiles flourished there.

  3. The landmass that is now the Antarctic continent was formerly located at a more-northerly position, and was also united to other landmasses.

  4. Dicynodonts originated on the island continent of Antarctica and went extinct as the continent migrated to its current position at the South Pole.

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#Question id: 13134

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which  of  the  graphs  below  represents the  relationship between  population  size  (N)  and  population  growth  rate (dN/dt) for a population showing exponential growth?
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#Question id: 5069

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

 The central player in the “canonical” Wnt intracellular signal transduction pathway is called β-catenin in vertebrates and in Drosophila (the homolog of b-catenin):
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#Question id: 27503

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Bacterial DNA are atchitected in form of loop sized with
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#Question id: 414

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

The hydrolysis of phosphoenolpyruvate proceeds with a DG'° of about –62 kJ/mol. The greatest contributing factors to this reaction are the destabilization of the reactants by electostatic repulsion and stabilization of the product pyruvate by:
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#Question id: 13171

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Imagine some cosmic catastrophe jolts Earth so that its axis is perpendicular to the orbital plane between Earth and the sun. The most obvious effect of this change would be