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#Question id: 1021

Disease Control (CDC) determine that the agent causing the birds to die is the West Nile virus. Outbreaks of this illness have been observed in several other countries in Asia and the Middle East across the last 50 years, but not in the United States. With this information, what would be the best categorization of this infectious agent/disease

#SCPH06 I Botany

  1. This is clearly a reemerging infection. It's been around for a long time, and it is reappearing in a susceptible population again.

  2. This is clearly a nosocomial infection. It's transmitted from animals to human beings in urban environments.

  3. This is clearly an emerging infection. It hasn't been around that long, and it has made a jump across continents into a new susceptible population.

  4. This is clearly not a concern to human beings--maybe it's emerging in animals, maybe it's reemerging, maybe it's nosomial. But who cares? It's only in birds.

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#Question id: 10804

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Major types of alkaloids, their amino acid precursors, and well-known examples of each type;

Alkaloid class

Biosynthetic precursor

Examples

A. Pyrrolidine

i. Lysine

a. Coniine

B. Tropane

ii. Ornithine

b. Retrorsine

C. Piperidine

 

c. Lupinine

D. Pyrrolizidine

 

d. Nicotine

E. Quinolizidine

 

e. Atropine and Cocaine

Which of the following combination from the given table is correct?
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#Question id: 10805

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Breakdown of cyanogenic glycosides in plants is a two-step enzymatic process, the enzymes necessary to hydrolyze the sugar and liberate HCN is
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#Question id: 10806

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

HCN is a fast-acting toxin that inhibits
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#Question id: 10807

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Cyanogenic Glycosides and Glucosinolates are nitrogen containing secondary metabolites in plants. Following are some statements regarding the action of Cyanogenic Glycosides and Glucosinolates;

a) Cyanogenic Glycosides release the poison hydrogen cyanide by the action of enzyme known as Hydroxynitrile lyase

b) Release of the mustard-smelling volatiles from glucosinolates is catalyzed by a hydrolytic enzyme, called a thioglucosidase or myrosinase

c) substerate for Glycosidase is Cyanogenic glycoside and Thioglucosidase is Aglycone

d) Like cyanogenic glycosides, glucosinolates are stored in the intact plant separately from the enzymes that hydrolyze them, and they are brought into contact with these enzymes only when the plant is crushed

Which of the following combinations of above statement is true?
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#Question id: 10808

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Many plants also contain unusual amino acids, called nonprotein amino acids, these Nonprotein amino acids are often very similar to common protein amino acids. Canavanine, for example, is a close analog of_____A______, and azetidine-2-carboxylic acid has a structure very much like that of_____B________.
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#Question id: 10809

#I Life Science/ Life Sciences Group – I-V

Sieve element sap is rich in sugars and other organic molecules, These molecules represent an energy investment for the plant. How their loss be prevented when sieve elements are damaged?