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#Question id: 8913


The larvae of some insects are merely small versions of the adult, whereas the larvae of other insects look completely different from adults, eat different foods, and may live in different habitats. Which of the following most directly favors the evolution of the latter, more radical, kind of metamorphosis?

#SCPH28 | Zoology
  1. natural selection of sexually immature forms of insects
  2. changes in the homeobox genes governing early development
  3. the evolution of meiosis
  4. B and C only
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#Question id: 14169

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Unsweetened condensed milk is a shelf-stable canned milk product. If 100kg of fresh milk, containing 87% water and the rest milk solids, is condensed using an evaporator to remove 60% of the water from the fresh milk, calculate:

 The mass of water evaporated


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#Question id: 14170

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Unsweetened condensed milk is a shelf-stable canned milk product. If 100kg of fresh milk, containing 87% water and the rest milk solids, is condensed using an evaporator to remove 60% of the water from the fresh milk, calculate:

The final mass and composition of condensed milk produced


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#Question id: 14171

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 10^5 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the concentration and total amount of glucose in the nutrient medium?

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#Question id: 14172

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:
In a batch reactor of volume 105 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the yield coefficients YX/S (biomass/glucose)?

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#Question id: 14197

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

What is the generation time of a bacterial population that increases from  10,000 cells to 10,000,000 cells in four hours of growth?

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#Question id: 14197

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

What is the generation time of a bacterial population that increases from  10,000 cells to 10,000,000 cells in four hours of growth?