Bioremediation is _____.
A.) the use of biological processes to remedy diseases
B.) the use of prokaryotes in producing pharmaceutical products
C.) the use of organisms to remove pollutants from the environment
D.) the modification of prokaryotes for industrial purposes
E.) the use of prokaryotes in producing transgenic organisms
Ans: C.) the use of organisms to remove pollutants from the environment
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Homologous chromosomes are identical copies of each other. 2. Mitotic cell division is never used by organisms as a means of reproduction. 3. A diploid queen honeybee produce eggs by meiosis. Some of these eggs are never fertilized, while the rest are. These unfertilized eggs develop into haploid male honeybee. This can be an example of sexual reproduction. 4. For any given species, cells in metaphase II of meiosis would contain 2X more genetic material than cells in metaphase of mitosis. 5. The karyotype of a normal human male would show a total of 23 pairs of homologous chromosomes.
The capacity of an organism to produce a toxin is called ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following results from mitosis?
a. a pair of unidentical twins b. a group of rooted plant cuttings from multiple plants c. the cells produced by the sexual reproduction of a single-celled organism d. two new descendent cells each with a full complement of identical DNA e. completely repaired DNA from damaged parental cells
Many noncoding sequences are involved with
A. intron formation. B. regulation of gene expression. C. coding for antibody formation. D. tRNA synthesis.