Huntington's disease is governed by autosomal-dominant inheritance. What is the likelihood that a person who has one heterozygous-affected parent and one normal parent will develop the disease?
a. 100% (certain)
b. 50%
c. 0% (impossible)
d. 75%
b
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A. a motor protein. B. an intermediate filament protein. C. a cell adhesion molecule. D. an extracellular matrix protein.
When Lyme disease was first being investigated, the observation that frequently only one person in a household was infected was a clue leading to the discovery that the disease was spread by arthropod bites. Why was this so?
A. Mosquitoes (an example of arthropods) are never inside a house. They are strictly outdoor animals, so they couldn't spread the infection inside the household. B. Mosquitoes (an example of arthropods) only bite once in their life cycle. As such, they can only transmit the illness once before they die. Even if an infected mosquito was inside a house, it could therefore only infect one human. C. If the infection is spread by the bite of an arthropod, it wouldn't spread easily by respiratory secretions, direct contact, or sexual contact between individuals within the family. D. Arthropods lose their mechanical ability to bite a human after a single bite, much like certain bees that lose their stinger after a single sting. This prevents them from transmitting the infection to more than one individual in a household.
The polar transport of auxin in a seedling
a. occurs in parenchyma cells. b. uses passive membrane transporters to move auxin in and out of cells. c. uses membrane pumps to move hydrogen ions out of the cytoplasm into the primary cell wall. d. activates enzymes that loosen cross-links between cellulose microfibrils. e. does all of these.
In which respect do spermatogenesis and oogenesis differ?
A) Spermatogenesis occurs in the epididymis, whereas oogenesis occurs in the ovary. B) The number of gametes produced is different. C) The number of meiotic divisions is different. D) The number of chromosomes in gametes is different.