While walking in the woods, a student encounters a brightly colored organism with a flat, branching structure growing on a decaying branch. Back in the laboratory, she finds it contains continuous cytoplasm with no clear cell boundaries and hundreds of nuclei. This organism is most likely a _____.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: plasmodial slime mold
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The acquisition of a relatively small amount of genetic material from an organism that is not a parent of the receiving organism is most specifically referred to as:
A. vertical descent. B. horizontal gene transfer. C. endosymbiosis. D. parasitism. E. Darwinian evolution.
____________________ is a symptom of Gaucher disease (indicate any one). Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s)
The life history traits favored by selection are most likely to vary with
A) fluctuations in K. B) the shape of the J curve. C) the maximum size of a population. D) population density. E) population dispersion.
Which one of the following molecules is able to move across the cell membrane by simple diffusion?
A. DNA B. hemoglobin C. carbon dioxide D. starch E. glucose