A typhoon devastates a population on "island A" and only a few individuals survive. Several generations later, the replenished population suffers from several inherited disorders that are very rare in other groups. A genetic event that explains this is
A) a population bottleneck.
B) genetic load.
C) a founder effect.
D) natural selection.
A) a population bottleneck.
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a. Influenza b. Adenovirus c. HSV d. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Posttranslational modification includes ____
a. cleavage of poly-A tails from mRNA b. the binding of miRNAs to mRNA c. the chemical modification, processing, and degradation of proteins d. chromatin remodeling e. splicing of mRNAs
A primer comprised of ________ is needed at the origin of nucleotide addition.
A. DNA B. helicase C. polymerase III D. RNA E. polymerase I
Depending on the microbe, a pathogen can potentially be spread during _____phases of infection and disease
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).