What is endosymbiosis?

What will be an ideal response?


one organism living inside another

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Griffith, a British microbiologist, used bacteria and mice to demonstrate the process of transformation. During transformation,  

A.  a bacterial chromosome produces an exact copy of itself. B.  the nucleus of a mouse cell repairs itself when damaged by bacterial infection. C.  DNA from an infected mouse cell changes bacteria from a non-pathogenic to a pathogenic form. D.  genetic material is transferred from one bacterial cell to another. E.  a bacterial cell is transformed into a spore during unsuitable environmental conditions.

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The club fungi are placed in the phylum Basidiomycota

(a) because of their social nature. (b) because they form basidia. (c) because of the presence of an ascocarp. (d) because they are dikaryotic.

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The ____ is/are involved in the synthesis of lipids

a. rough endoplasmic reticulum b. Golgi complex c. smooth endoplasmic reticulum d. ribosomes e. nucleoli

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Which of the following hormones stimulates an increase in basal metabolic rate as a tropic hormone?

A) prolactin B) follicle-stimulating hormone C) thyroid-stimulating hormone D) adrenocorticotropic hormone

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