What is the purpose of the Durham tube?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Durham tubes are used in microbiology to detect production of gas by microorganisms. They are simply smaller test tubes inserted upside down in another test tube. This small tube is initially filled with the solution in which the microorganism is to be grown.
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A. a Type I survivorship curve B. a Type II survivorship curve C. a Type III survivorship curve D. a semelparous life history adaptation E. populations regulated by density-independent events
Stable annealing due to hydrogen bonding between DNAs of similar nucleotide sequence from different organisms is referred to as ________.
A. hybridization B. hydrolysis C. restriction D. ligation
Human height is a trait affected by both genes and the environment. How is this so?
What will be an ideal response?
Diagram the life cycle of a pine. What will be an ideal response?