Flycatcher birds that migrate from Africa to Europe feed their nestlings mostly with moth caterpillars. The data presented show the mean dates of egg laying, hatching, and fledging of flycatcher young, and the 1980 and 2000 peak mass of caterpillars.

The most likely cause for the shift in caterpillar peak mass is

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Ultrastructural studies have led to the characterization of two distinctive cytological

pathways of PCD in plants;

I) Vacuolar-type PCD

II) Hypersensitive response-type (HR-type) PCD

a) cytosol and all its organelles, including the plasma membrane, are completely brokendown

b) The vacuole loses water, resulting in marked cell shrinkage, contraction from the cell wall,

and nuclear DNA degradation

c) PCD occurs in leaves in response to microbial attack

d) cell wall is either partially or completely digested as well, as in endosperm tissue

e) Continued water loss from the cytosol leads to the breakdown of the plasma membrane

and the release of residual cellular contents into the apoplast

Given characterization of PCD pathway match with its type PCD?

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The autophagy pathway included____

a) the catabolic mechanism that delivers cellular components to lysosomes, where they are degraded

b) Autophagy protects the cell from the harmful or lethal effects of damaged or unnecessary proteins and organelles

c) During starvation, the autophagic breakdown and recycling of cellular components also

ensure cellular survival by maintaining cellular energy levels

Which of the following are the correct prediction about autophagy is true?

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following is serves to regulate the ATG9 membrane shuttle system?

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Chlorophyll is tightly bound in complexes with proteins. During senescence these chlorophyll–protein complexes must be dismantled to allow the apoproteins to be recycled by___

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

WRKY plant-specific group of transcription factors that play important role in many plant metabolic and developmental processes such as;

a) It contain a 30 amino acid region named for the conserved amino acid sequence WRKYGQK in its N-terminal domain

b) It is an important regulators of plant–pathogen interactions as well as senescence

c) WRKY53 is involved in the regulation of dark-induced leaf senescence

d) In Arabidopsis, leaf senescence is delayed in knockout mutants of the WRKY53 gene

e) WRKY53 also binds to the promoter of the WRKY53 gene, inhibiting its own expression in a negative feedback loop

Which of the following given prediction about WRKY transcription factor is correct?

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#Question id: 7760

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In general, the hormones that regulate senescence can be divided into two basic categories based on their most commonly observed effects:

I) positive (promoting) senescence regulators and

II) negative (repressing) senescence regulators

a) Hormones involved-Ethylene, Abscisic acid (ABA)

b) Hormones involved-Brassinosteroids (BRs), Salicylic acid (SA), Jasmonic acid (JA)

c) Hormones involved-Cytokinin, Auxin, Gibberellin (GAs)

Select correct combinations from given hormones which are involved in regulators?