Horizontally transferred genes typically encode essential metabolic functions such as DNA replication, transcription, and translation

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: FALSE

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Consider the data in Fig. 46.11 illustrating the survivorship curve of the Lime Swallowtail butterfly. As indicated in your text, the survivorship from the egg to larval stage is 68%

If the average time from egg to adult is 43 days, what is the per capita death rate? What will be an ideal response?

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Increasing the flow of Na+ ions into a neuron at rest (-70 mV initially) would trigger

A. hyperpolarization. B. depolarization. C. repolarization. D. active transport. E. None of the choices are correct.

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You are a breeder of animals with an X-linked coat-color gene, one allele of which gives black fur and another of which gives white fur

If you cross a black-colored female with a white-colored male, what would their male and female offspring look like?

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Which statement best describes why the law of mass action explains the loading and unloading of oxygen in hemoglobin?

A) Oxygen has a greater mass than carbon dioxide and therefore can load more quickly than carbon dioxide. B) As oxygen levels in the pulmonary capillaries increase, more oxyhemoglobin is formed. Conversely, as oxygen levels in the systemic capillaries decrease, the reaction reverses and releases oxygen from hemoglobin. C) The mass of both carbon dioxide and oxygen is the same and therefore they exchange at the same rates D) As oxygen level rises, so does the pressure, which breaks the bonds of hemoglobin thereby releasing hemoglobin to the tissues. E) As oxygen levels in the pulmonary capillaries decrease, more carbaminohemoglobin is formed due to the concentration of carbon dioxide.

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