In a Hardy-Weinberg population of butterflies find that 32% are heterozygous at a particular locus. What should be the frequency of the homozygous individuals in this population?

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#Question id: 13054

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Precision will be reduced, but yield will be increased

Optimisation of a PCR reaction is often a compromise between the competing demands for precision, efficiency and yield. Although the specific effects may vary, generally, increasing the annealing temperature will increase non-specific primer binding and reduce precision. Increasing the length of the elongation phase will reduce the proportion of incomplete newly-synthesised strands and therefore increase yield. In this case, the potential effect on efficiency is unclear. Increasing the elongation phase would increase the reaction time, but the time taken to ramp down to a lower annealing temperature would be reduced.

What would the expected effect be on a PCR reaction if the primers used were slightly shorter and more variable than the intended oligonucleotide sequences?

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#Question id: 4947

#SCPH06 I Botany

The first genes on Earth were probably

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#Question id: 20105

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Identify the correct statement regarding a spontaneous process :

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#Question id: 10978

#SCPH06 I Botany

Which of the following events occurs at the end of the period of ventricular ejection?

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#Question id: 563

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

Both water and glucose share an —OH that can serve as a substrate for a reaction with the terminal phosphate of ATP catalyzed by hexokinase.  Glucose, however, is about a million times more reactive as a substrate than water.  The best explanation is that: