A mountain rain shadow is the
a. arid area on the windward slope.
b. wet area on the windward slope.
c. arid area on the leeward slope.
d. wet area on the leeward slope.
e. arid area on either slope
C
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A. hyperpolarization. B. summation C. tetanus D. agonist
The hormones that are most directly involved with the process of birth are
a. estrogen and oxytocin. b. oxytocin and prostaglandins. c. oxytocin and progesterone. d. prolactin and estrogen. e. prostaglandin and progesterone.
The movement of organic compounds throughout plants is described as ____.
A. cohesion-tension B. source-to-sink C. facilitated transport D. active transport E. transpiration pull
Which of the following statements about generalized transduction is false?
A. Generalized transduction always involves lytic phage. B. "Headfull" packaging always places only phage DNA into the phage head during phage packaging in generalized transduction. C. Generalized transduction can be used to map bacterial genes. D. Two recombination events are necessary to integrate the transferred DNA during generalized transduction. E. Genes that are close together on the bacterial chromosome will have a relatively large cotransduction frequency.