What is the primary function of cellular respiration?
a. to oxidize glucose
b. to produce proteins
c. to regenerate ATP
d. to metabolize nutrients
c. to regenerate ATP
Cellular respiration takes energy from our food nutrients and transfers that energy into a usable form of energy in ATP.
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A reproductive cell, or gamete, has:
A. one allele for each gene. B. two alleles for each gene. C. one allele for each gene if it is homozygous and two if it is heterozygous. D. one allele for each gene if it is truebreeding and two if it is an F1 offspring. E. between one and four alleles for each gene.
The Crenarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota, and Euryarchaeota are ________.
A. now classified with the bacteria based on genomic sequence analysis B. very closely related based on 16S rRNA comparisons C. photosynthetic Archaea D. the three phyla of the Archaea
In a neutral solution the concentration of _____.
A) hydrogen ions is equal to the concentration of hydroxide ions b) hydrogen ions is less than the concentration of hydroxide ions c) water molecules is less than the concentration of hydrogen ions d) water molecules is less than the concentration of hydroxide ions e) hydrogen ions is greater than the concentration of hydroxide ions
Classification and taxonomy provide information and contribute to each of the following endeavors, except
A. tracing the origins of bacteria. B. identification of unknown species. C. enabling communication among scientists regarding the same and different species of microbes. D. the study of evolutionary relationships. E. selection of appropriate antibiotics.