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#Question id: 5648


Use the following information to answer the question. In order to test how sea urchin sperm bind to eggs, scientists isolated the egg receptor protein that binds to the sperm acrosomal protein called bindin. Plastic beads were coated with egg receptor for bindin (ERB1) from eggs of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and then the beads mixed with sperm from S. purpuratus or from the related species, S. franciscanus. The researchers counted how many sperm were bound to each bead. The results are shown in the graph below. Treatments:

A: S. purpuratus sperm mixed with S. purpuratus ERB1 beads

B: S. purpuratus sperm mixed with beads containing no ERB1 protein

C: S. franciscanus sperm mixed with S. purpuratus ERB1 beads

D: S. franciscanus sperm mixed with beads containing no ERB1 protein

 What is a broader implication from the observations of the experiment?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. In sea urchins, fertilization of eggs by sperm is dependent upon species-specific protein interactions.

  2. Only some species of sea urchins use receptor proteins on their eggs to bind sperm.

  3. Protein-coated plastic beads should not be used to test sperm binding to eggs.

  4. S. franciscanus is probably not a sea urchin, but must be some other type of organism.

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#Question id: 5712

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In each of the following cases, determine the consequences of a single crossover within the inverted region of a pair of homologous chromosomes with the gene order A B C D in one chromosome and a c b d in the other. There is a two situation of centromere for that gene. 

(A) Centromere is not included within the inversion.

(B) Centromere is included within the inversion

Following consequence are resulting are

I - The crossover chromatids consist of a dicentric and an acentric

II- One Cross over product is duplicated for the terminal region contain in A and deficient for the terminal region containing D

III- Both cross over products is monocentric

Following is correct combination for consequence?

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#Question id: 5711

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following is results of Crossing over?

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#Question id: 5710

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

This cytological analysis, chromosome (A) represents the normal condition and the centromere position. Assume that only one structural chromosome aberration occurs in the other chromosomes

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#Question id: 5696

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Abnormality during egg formation as a nondisjuction in anaphase I of single set of chromosome, but spermatogenesis is normal will produced resulting progeny would be

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#Question id: 5693

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Type of nondisjunction leads to regions of tissue with different chromosome constitutions, a condition known as mosaicism is due to

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#Question id: 5689

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

What kind of aneuploidy gamete will be generated if meiotic nondisjuction in second division (n represent haploid number of chromosome )