During cell crawling, the cell must attach to the substrate upon which it is crawling. One group of attachment proteins is the ________.

A) actins
B) actomyosins
C) creatines
D) integrins
E) titins


D) integrins

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In the Triple Sugar Iron Agar, the three sugars are

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An X-linked recessive gene (c) produces red-green color blindness. A normal woman whose father was color blind marries a color-blind man. What are the chances that the first son will be color blind?

A. 0% B. 25% C. 50% D. 75% E. 100%

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Which of the following infectious disease transmission modes is not correctly paired with an example?

A) windborne: cholera B) breast milk: HIV C) flea bite: Plague D) touching: cat-scratch fever E) swimming: swimmer's ear

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