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DDT was once considered a ʺsilver bulletʺ that would permanently eradicate insect pests. Today, instead, DDT is largely useless against many insects. Which of these would have been required for this pest eradication effort to be successful in the long run?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. Larger doses of DDT should have been applied.

  2. All habitats should have received applications of DDT at about the same time.

  3. The frequency of DDT application should have been higher.

  4. None of the individual insects should have possessed genomes that made them resistant to DDT.

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which is not generally a molecule used to conserve energy?

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If Dust is called Air, Air is called Fire, Fire is called Water, Water is called colour. colour is called Rain and Rain is called Dust, the where do fish live?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Specific place on a chromosome occupied by an allele

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

The chemical benzo(a)pyrene, found in cigarette smoke as well as in coal tar, undergoes metabolic activation in the lungs to form a potent mutagen that mainly, causes conversion of guanine (G) to thymine (T) bases, a transversion mutation, When applied to cultured bronchial epithelial cells, activated benzo(a)pyrene induces many mutations, including inactivating mutations of the p53 gene, at codon number______

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#Question id: 3480

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following statements about learning and behavior is correct?

A) Operant conditioning involves associating a behavior with a reward or punishment.

B) Associative learning involves linking one stimulus with another.

C) Behavior can be modified by learning, but some apparent learning is due to maturation.

D) Imprinting is a learned behavior with an innate component acquired during a sensitive period.