The term "glucose sparing" refers to the increase in fat utilization seen in most tissues and organs during periods of low glucose availability.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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A. They create broken chromosomes or stalled replication forks. B. The cytotoxic effect of these DNA damaging agents requires the cell to be actively dividing. C. These agents are toxic to cancer cells because they are actively dividing to form a tumor. D. The adverse side effects of chemotherapeutics are strongest in cell types that divide rapidly (hair, blood, and the gastrointestinal tract). E. All of these statements are true.

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Chordates are associated with which anatomical structure?

a. central ring canal b. metanephridia c. visceral mass d. dorsal hollow nerve cord

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Which of the following would increase population size?

a. natality

b. mortality c. emigration d. an r less than 0 e. an r equal to 0

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The beginning codon of an mRNA strand to produce a protein is a(n) 

A. codon. B. initiator/start codon. C. terminator/stop codon. D. anticodon.

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