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#Question id: 5807

Which of the following would be an example of a germline mutation?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

  1. Exposure to excessive UV radiation causes changes in the DNA of a skin cell, leading to basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer).

  2. In a very early human embryo, a mistake in mitosis causes loss of a Y chromosome in one daughter cell. The resulting child is a fertile male who is chromosomally partially male (XY) and partially female with Turner's syndrome (XO).

  3. A man with normal chromosomes has a hip X-ray without a protective shield. Ten months later, his wife gives birth to a child with a chromosomal deletion.

  4. An embryo missing one copy of the third chromosome is miscarried very early in pregnancy.

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#Question id: 8899

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

A new species of aquatic chordate is discovered that closely resembles an ancient form. It has the following characteristics: external armor of bony plates, no paired lateral fins, and a suspension-feeding mode of nutrition. In addition to these, it will probably have which of the following characteristics?
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#Question id: 8893

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

While sampling marine plankton in a lab, a student encounters large numbers of fertilized eggs. The student rears some of the eggs in the laboratory for further study and finds that the blastopore becomes the mouth. The embryo develops into a trochophore larva and eventually has a true coelom. These eggs probably belonged to a(n)
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#Question id: 8891

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

While vacationing in a country that lacks adequate meat inspection, a student ate undercooked ground beef. Sometime later the student became easily fatigued, and lost body weight. At about the same time, whitish, flattened, rectangular objects full of small white spheres started appearing in his feces. Administration of niclosamide cured the problem. The student had probably been infected by a
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#Question id: 8888

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

In a small stream, you pick up a rock and observe many small, flattened worms crawling on its undersurface. You decide that they belong to the phylum Platyhelminthes. To which class do they probably belong?
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#Question id: 8858

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of these factors, when used to label the horizontal axis of the graph in Figure 33.1, would account most directly for the shape of the plot?


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#Question id: 8852

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the corresponding bones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. However, genetic data suggest that all three kinds of organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for these data?