A mutation in which part of a chromosome is transferred to a non-homologous chromosome is referred to as:

a. deletion.
b. inversion.
c. translocation.
d. fission.
e. fusion.


C

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One day after a biology class four of your friends argue about the difference between phylogeny and systematics. Which friend is right?

A. Friend A states that systematics and phylogenies are really the same, one is more recent than the other, but basically they are the same. B. Friend B says that systematics is the same as cladistics and cladistics is reconstructing clades, which ultimately lead to the development of phylogenies. C. Friend C argues that systematics is the actual collecting and cataloguing of specimens into museums that can be used later by scientists to construct clades and phylogenies. D. Friend D says that the way she remembers is that systematics is the reconstruction and study of phylogenies.

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Which of the following is the most appropriate pairing of microbe and biosafety level?

A. E. coli, BSL-3 B. anthrax, BSL-1 C. Ebola, BSL-2 D. methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), BSL-2 E. tuberculosis, BSL-1

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