Cheetahs exhibit significant inbreeding and loss of heterozygosity due to overhunting and loss of habitat experienced at some point in their evolutionary history
Which genetic mechanism occurs when a large population is substantially reduced at random, acting independently of natural selection? A) founder effect
B) mutation
C) gene flow
D) Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
E) bottleneck effect
E
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A) oxidation of organic compounds. B) oxidation of inorganic compounds. C) reduction of organic compounds. D) metabolic autotrophy.
Why is the Lineweaver—Burk plot important in enzyme kinetics?
A) It is a single-reciprocal plot. B) It illustrates enzyme specificity. C) It reveals the presence of prosthetic groups in enzymes. D) It makes it easier to determine Vmax. E) It is nonlinear.
Sidearms are attached to ________.
A) B tubules B) A tubules C) central pairs D) radial spokes E) interdoublet nexin
Spongy bone is ____
a. very weak b. the major component of the Haversian system c. made primarily of cartilage d. found inside a long bone’s shaft e. dense