South American anteaters have no teeth and a long sticky tongue; they rip open anthills and termite mounds and capture insects with their tongues
An Australian marsupial known as the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is not closely related to anteaters, but it too has highly reduced teeth and a long sticky tongue, and it feeds by ripping open termite burrows and lapping the insects up. Such similarities between species that are not inherited from a common ancestor are known as ________. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
homoplasy
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a. golgi b. matrix c. chitin d. cytosol e. none of the above.
The duplication of a cell's DNA is called ________.
A. replication B. mitosis C. transcription D. mutation E. translation
IP3 receptors are associated with
A) plasma membranes. B) Golgi apparatus membranes. C) mitochondrial membranes. D) ER membranes. E) endosome membranes.
A biologist from the United States Forest Service estimated the population of guppies in a pond to be 30,000 per cubic meter. This is also known as the
A. population density. B. density-dependent factor. C. natality. D. None of these answers is true.