Most of the creamy flesh of a corn kernel is ____ tissue

a. pollen
b. endosperm
c. ovary
d. carpel
e. ovulec


ANSWER: b

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Which of the following statements about transformation is false?

A. All R-plasmids contain antibiotic-resistance genes. B. Like transduction and conjugation, natural transformation is an "accident" of plasmid biology. C. Natural transformation of the Enterobacteriaceae is a significant public health risk. D. Artificial transformation is essential to many recombinant DNA techniques. E. The bacterium E. coli is incapable of natural transformation.

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