A 25-year-old medical student spent a summer volunteering in the sub-Saharan region of Africa. There he noted a high incidence of people reporting difficulty with night vision due to a lack of vitamin A in their diet. Vitamin A is a precursor for the synthesis of

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In a normal healthy person, which of the following blood components has the shortest life span?

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which statement is not an assumption of the Hardy–Weinberg law?

a. The allelic frequencies (p and q) are equal.

b. The population is randomly mating.

c. The population is large.

d. Locus is di-allelic

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In tomatoes, tall (D) is dominant over dwarf (d) and smooth fruit (P) is dominant over pubescent fruit (p), which is covered with fine hairs. A farmer has two tall andsmooth tomato plants, which we will call plant A and plant B. The farmer crosses plants A and B with the same dwarf and pubescent plant and obtains the following numbers of progeny

a. The genotypes of both plant A and plant B are DdPp

b. In plant A, Gene D and Gene P link as cis configuration

c. In plant B, Gene D and Gene P link as cis configuration

d. In plant A, Gene D and Gene P link as trans configuration

e. In plant B, Gene D and Gene P link as trans configuration

Which of the following above statement are not correct?

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology