What is the definition of the term gene?

What will be an ideal response?


a DNA sequence used to make a particular polypeptide

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Refer to the following figure, which diagrams the reproductive anatomy of the human male, to answer the question(s) below

In the above figure, which letter points to the scrotum? A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E

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There are little birds that spend a great deal of time on the back of a rhinoceros and eat the blood-sucking ticks out of the rhino's ears. The rhino greatly benefits from the relationship, since it cannot remove the ticks itself. The tick-rhino relationship is an example of ________.

A. mutualism B. predator-prey C. commensalism D. parasitism

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The role that an organism plays in its environment is called its

A. role. B. position. C. ecosystem. D. niche.

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Those organisms that are covered by numerous, tiny locomotory structures belong to the phylum

a. Euglenozoa. b. Stramenopila. c. Parabasalia. d. Alveolata.

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