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#Question id: 8845

The experimental approach taken in current biological investigations presumes that

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. simple organic compounds can be synthesized in the laboratory from inorganic precursors, but complex organic compounds like carbohydrates and proteins can only be synthesized by living organisms.
  2. living organisms can be understood in terms of the same physical and chemical laws that can be used to explain all natural phenomena.
  3. although a life force, or vitalism, exists in living organisms, this life force cannot be studied by physical or chemical methods.
  4. living organisms are composed of the same elements present in nonliving things, plus a few special trace elements found only in living organisms or their products. 
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#Question id: 1274

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which of the following are included as functions of the extracellular matrix?

a. supporting differentiation               b. synthesis of procollagen

c. binding growth hormones               d. filtering
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#Question id: 16317

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Developmental stress:
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#Question id: 10575

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

If the per capita birth rate (b) and per capita death rate (d) in one year is 0.80 and 0.20 respectively. if the initial population size is 600, what will be net change (dN) in population size in one year
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#Question id: 10960

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Why do some malnourished patients bleed excessively when injured?
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#Question id: 5327

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In the human pedigree shown here, the daughter indicated by the black circle (II-1) has a form of deafness determined by a recessive allele. What is the probability that the phenotypically normal son (II 3) is heterozygous for the gene?