Which of the following can interfere with or delay wound healing?

a. Youth and good nutrition
b. Immobilization of the area
c. Adequate circulation
d. Steroids


d. Steroids

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Rothman and colleagues proposed that the specificity of a vesicle fusing with its target membrane lies in the interaction of pairs of proteins called v-(vesicle) and t-(target)

a. SNAPs. b. SNAREs. c. NSFs. d. COPs.

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In many dicots, the first pair of leaves to emerge from the soil after seed germination is completely unlike all the rest of the leaves that form on that plant. In such plants, these leaves are

A) formed from the endosperm. B) cotyledons, which have elongated and turned green. C) made from the epicotyl hook. D) derived from the root, not the shoot. E) made from the opening and greening of the coleoptile.

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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a lab technique that ultimately results in which of the following?

A) the ability to transfer genes using plasmids B) a large clone library C) duplication of a small strand of DNA into billions of copies D) the isolation of a particular gene from a donor species E) the use of a radioactive probe to isolate a gene from a gene library

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