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#Question id: 15005


You identify a previously unidentified plant species and decide to study its genetics. You establish true breeding strains for leaf shape (longer than wide vs equal length and width) and flower color (white vs. yellow). When you perform a dihybrid cross with these strains, you find that your results are very different than those predicted by a 9:3:3:1 ratio. You calculate a chi square and get a p value of less than 0.0001. Which of the following statements is most accurate based on this observation?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. Your plant species is not governed by Mendel's laws.
  2. You need to test a different hypothesis, such as close linkage of these genes
  3. You must have designed your crosses wrong, so you need to throw the experiment out.
  4. You have discovered a new mechanism of sexual reproduction
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#Question id: 11216

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

When two excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) occur at a single synapse so rapidly in succession that the postsynaptic neuron's membrane potential has not returned to the resting potential before the second EPSP arrives, the EPSPs add together producing ________.

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#Question id: 11215

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

If excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) are produced nearly simultaneously through two different synapses on the same postsynaptic neuron, the EPSPs can also add together creating ________.

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#Question id: 11214

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Neurotransmitters categorized as inhibitory are expected to ________.

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#Question id: 11213

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

An example of ligand-gated ion channels is ________.

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#Question id: 11212

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The activity of acetylcholine in a synapse is terminated by its ________.

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#Question id: 11211

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The following steps refer to various stages in transmission at a chemical synapse.


1. Neurotransmitter binds with receptors associated with the postsynaptic membrane.


2. Calcium ions rush into neuron's cytoplasm.


3. An action potential depolarizes the membrane of the presynaptic axon terminal.


4. The ligand-gated ion channels open.


5. The synaptic vesicles release neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft.


Which sequence of events is correct?