A friend of yours picks up a branch like the one pictured at the right. Knowing that you have taken a biology course and studied plants, she asks you what the plant is. Identify this branch, giving your friend the full scientific name for the plant.
What will be an ideal response?
Ginkgo biloba
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You have discovered a new bacterial strain that causes urinary tract infections. Closely related bacterial species cannot cause infections. You compare the strains and find that your new strain has structures composed of protein external to its cell wall
What structures might your new strain have that the other strains do not? Why? What will be an ideal response?
Briefly contrast the dideoxy DNA sequencing developed by Fred Sanger with pyrosequencing methods
What will be an ideal response?
Long-term memory:a
involves reverberating circuits. b. is limited to about seven chunks of information at a given time. c. requires several hours for the memories to become consolidated. d. is also known as explicit memory. e. depends on activated receptors that are linked to G proteins.
Why is ATP important in living organisms?
a. It is easily converted to starch for long-term storage. b. It can transfer some of its energy to other chemicals. c. It is an important structural component of cell membranes. d. Like all other nucleic acids, it stores hereditary information. e. Like RNA, it acts as a source code for the formation of proteins.