Selective breeding involves ________
A) genetic engineering of animals and plants to improve growth characteristics
B) mating organisms with desirable characteristics
C) the use of fermentation to produce biotechnology products
D) combining sperm and egg cells from different species to produce hybrid organisms
E) None of these choices
B
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Refer to the figure above. Which of the following forms a monophyletic group?
A) A, B, C, D B) C and D C) D, E, and F D) E, F, and G
During hydrolysis of ATP, it loses a(n) ________, which results in an increase in entropy.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Consider that you have access to use fluorescent tagging of specific proteins and view cells in a confocal microscope. You isolate a cell with the fluorescent dyes, showing that a very tiny, single-celled organism has not only a cell membrane, but internally folded membranes. You determine also that the membranes do not completely surround internal specialized compartments of the cell. You identify this as
A. a prokaryote. B. a yeast. C. a eukaryote. D. a plant. E. an animal.
What is the difference between ex vivo and in vivo gene therapy?
What will be an ideal response?