If you placed a red blood cell in a hypotonic solution, you would predict that its volume would ____ while the solute concentration in its cytoplasm would _____.

A. increase, increase
B. increase, decrease
C. decrease, increase
D. decrease, decrease
E. decrease, not change


B. increase, decrease

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Which of the following is NOT true about hagfishes?

a. They are jawless chordates with some resemblances to lancelets and some to vertebrates. b. They possess a partial cartilaginous cranium. c. They are known only from the fossil record. d. When threatened they secrete copious amounts of mucus. e. They lack jaws.

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The creation of new combinations of alleles, as a consequence of sexual reproduction with meiosis, is called ________

A) genetic recombination B) outcrossing C) genetic drift D) linkage disequilibrium

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A monosaccharide that plays an important role in energy storage is a six-carbon sugar called:

A. galactose. B. sucrose. C. cellulose. D. glucose. E. lactose.

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Which scientists showed that plants need light to grow?

a) van Helmont and Calvin. b) Priestley and Ingenhousz. c) van Helmont and Priestley. d) Priestley and Calvin.

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