In a "silent" mutation the
A. mutation is not in DNA.
B. codon that mutates does not cause a change in the amino acid specified.
C. codon that mutates causes a stop codon to occur instead of the placement of an amino acid.
D. mutation does not occur in a codon.
E. codon that mutates causes a change in the amino acid specified.
B. codon that mutates does not cause a change in the amino acid specified.
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If pigments from a particular species of plant are extracted and subjected to paper chromatography, which of the following is most likely?
A) Paper chromatography for the plant would isolate a single band of pigment that is characteristic of that particular plant. B) Paper chromatography would separate the pigments from a particular plant into several bands. C) The isolated pigments would be some shade of green. D) Paper chromatography would isolate only the pigments that reflect green light.
Researchers have found that an octopus given a clear plastic box with three different types of lids and a crab inside will eventually figure out how to get at least one of the lids open to get the crab. They have also shown that after a new octopus observes a veteran octopus (who already knows how to open the box), the new octopus is able to open the box and always uses the same type of lid that the veteran used. What term best describes these behaviors?
A. innate B. imprinting C. associative learning D. habituation E. cognitive learning
Some inhaled air never reaches the lungs.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The phylum Euryarchaeota contains Archaea that can
a. utilize CO2 as a carbon source. b. grow at a pH of 0. c. use S0 as a terminal electron acceptor. d. all of the above.