You are asked to help solve a murder, and a note from the murderer taunting the police says that the crime was committed using a lipid. What molecule could you exclude from your search?

What will be an ideal response?


a starch molecule

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Which of the following is most likely to occur when a tumor-suppressor gene is mutated?

A. The tumor-suppressor gene may be overactive. B. The resulting tumor-suppressor protein would further suppress cell proliferation. C. The resulting tumor-suppressor protein would activate an oncogene. D. The tumor-suppressor gene and resulting protein may lose its function and ability to suppress cell proliferation. E. None of the choices are possible.

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In a tropical forest some leaves are dark green

and some are light green. In a population of caterpillars, homozygous dominant dark green caterpillars thrive eating the green foliage; homozygous recessive light green caterpillars thrive eating light green foliage; heterozygous caterpillars of an intermediate color green are easily seen by birds and eaten, thus there frequency is far less than the dominants or recessives. This is an example of ___ selection.

a. directional b. stabilizing c. disruptive d. frequent e. mutational

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Atrazine is used as a(an)

a. pesticide. b. fertilizer. c. herbicide. d. substitute for PCBs. e. insect repellent

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The accompanying figure illustrates the process of ________, which requires a(n) ________ between two regions in a fluid

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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