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#Question id: 9213

Suppose you attend a town meeting at which some experts tell the audience that they have performed a cost-benefit analysis of a proposed transit system that would probably reduce overall air pollution and fossil fuel consumption. The analysis, however, reveals that ticket prices will not cover the cost of operating the system when fuel, wages, and equipment are taken into account. As a biologist, you know that if ecosystem services had been included in the analysis, the experts might have arrived at a different answer. Why are ecosystem services rarely included in economic analyses?

#SCPH28 | Zoology

  1. Federal laws of the United States exclude their inclusion in any cost benefit analysis.

  2. They have a low value and are usually not cost effective.
  3. Ecosystem services only take into account abiotic factors that affect local environments.
  4. Their cost is difficult to estimate, and people take them for granted.
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#Question id: 5747

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Mosaicism is due to
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#Question id: 4375

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Protein X is found to bind to a certain geneʹs promoter only when substance A is not present.  The gene can be transcribed in the presence of both X and A. It is not transcribed in the presence of X alone. Protein X is a/an __. Substance A is a/an __.
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#Question id: 34

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Which of the following is true of any (S)-enantiomer?
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#Question id: 1590

#SCPH28 | Zoology

An epitope associates with which part of an antibody?
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#Question id: 15628

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

When a liquid of density 1200 kg/m3 and viscosity 0.01 kg m-1s-1 flows through a 1 cm Diameter pipe at 0.2 m/s, the flow is referred as a