The ________ valves prevent blood from flowing back into the heart once it has left the ventricles

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semilunar

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How do different strains of E. coli can reveal different linkage arrangements of genes in Hfr crosses?

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Imagine you were working on a vaccine against HIV viruses. Which part of the virus particle would you try to target as an epitope for the vaccine?

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Which of the following is a proposed hypothesis for the origin of genetic information?

a. Early DNA molecules coded for RNA, which then catalyzed the production of proteins. b. Early polypeptides were the first "genes," followed by RNA and then DNA. c. As protocells grew and split, they distributed copies of their molecules to their offspring. d. Early RNA molecules coded for the order of amino acids in a polypeptide. e. Short RNA strands were capable of self-replication and evolved by natural selection.

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