Desert kangaroo rat nephrons have a much longer _____________, which allows a greater concentration gradient, facilitating more water reabsorption.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
loop of Henle
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Excess glucose is stored in large branched molecules of:
A. glycogen in animals. B. starch in bacteria. C. starch in animals. D. glycogen in plants. E. glycogen and starch in both animals and plants.
Which is NOT a function of the liver?
A. Detoxification of certain molecules B. Removal of glucose and storage as glycogen C. Destruction of fats D. Removal of foreign organisms
To prepare for a hiking trip in the Appalachian mountains you buy several field guides for the region from a used bookstore. You notice that the older guides list a single species of tiger swallowtail butterfly Papilio glaucus and an Appalachian morph of this species. However the newest guide list two separate species P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis. The authors of this guide state that the biological species concept was used in determining their classifications. What do you think led them to list two separate species of tiger swallowtail?
A. The discovery that P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis have distinct differences in wing coloration. B. The discovery that P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis interbreed in the wild. C. The discovery that P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis feed on different host plants. D. The discovery that P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis do not interbreed in the wild. E. The discovery that P. glaucus and P. appalachiensis have a genomic similarity of 99%.
The causative agent of Lyme disease is
A. Borrelia hermsii. B. Ixodes pacificus. C. Leptospira interrogans. D. Ixodes scapularis. E. Borrelia burgdorferi.