A veterinarian wants to determine what types of bacteria colonize in the mouths of cats. She takes a cheek swab from her pet cat. How can the veterinarian determine which bacteria are present in this sample? (Select all correct choices.)
A. She can culture the bacteria and look for
different morphological characteristics.
B. She can assess how many different rRNA
sequences are in her sample.
C. She can amplify whole genomes within
her sample.
D. She can determine which bacteria in her
sample sexually reproduce.
A,B,C
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A) highly acidic. B) highly alkaline. C) weakly acidic. D) weakly alkaline.
In reference to enzyme activities, repressors ________ the active site, while activators ________ it.
A. stimulate, repress B. disrupt, restore C. restore, disrupt D. promote, disrupt E. disrupt, promote
If segregation does NOT occur, the result will be
A. crossing-over. B. independent assortment. C. nondisjunction. D. fertilization.
For each of the following sentences, fill in the blanks with the best word or phrase in the list below. Not all words or phrases will be used; use each word or phrase only once
Most variation between individual humans is in the form of __________________. __________________ may arise by recombination within introns and can create proteins with novel combinations of domains. Scientists and government regulators must be very careful when introducing herbicide-resistant transgenic corn plants into the environment, because if resistant weeds arise from __________________ then the herbicides could become useless. Families of related genes can arise from a single ancestral copy by __________________ and subsequent __________________. divergence purifying selection exon shuffling single-nucleotide polymorphisms gene duplication synteny horizontal gene transfer unequal crossing-over Fill in the blank(s) with correct word