Programmed cell death is known as ____.

A. autophagy
B. mitosis
C. apoptosis
D. meiosis
E. cell genesis


C. apoptosis

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A) bacterial cultures B) tissue or cell culture C) live hosts D) prophages

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Match the environmental agent with the type of DNA damage it causes

a. X-rays b. UV radiation c. tobacco smoke d. exposure to oxidizing agents such as household bleach or hydrogen peroxide _____ Addition of bulky sidegroups that hinder proper base pairing _____ Loss of a base from one of the deoxyribose sugars, resulting in a gap in one DNA strand _____ Breaks in one or both of the sugar-phosphate backbones _____ Cross-links between adjacent pyrimidine bases What will be an ideal response?

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Organisms other than bacteria make up the microbiota; non-bacterial microbes that occupy the respiratory tract include ________.

A. Acinetobacter B. Prevotella C. Candida D. Pseudomonas E. Staphylococcus

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What structure prevents water from moving between cells of the endodermis of the plant root?

a. Casparian strip b. Okazaki fragments c. sclerids d. collenchyma e. sclerenchyma

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