A colleague gives you two tubes containing membrane fractions from an animal cell lysate. One tube contains the plasma membrane fraction, and the other tube contains the mitochondrial inner membrane fraction, but the tubes are not labeled

When you analyze the macromolecule composition of the samples, you are confident that the second tube contains the mitochondrial fraction, because the sample has
A) a higher ratio of cholesterol to phospholipids.
B) a higher protein to lipid ratio.
C) a lower protein to lipid ratio.
D) more carbohydrate in glycoproteins.
E) more GPI-anchored proteins.


Answer: B

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Observed genotypic frequencies in populations rarely match Hardy-Weinberg expectations exactly

Why is this so, and how do scientists determine if the frequencies they observe depart from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to a biologically meaningful degree?

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a. target sites b. transposases c. transposable elements d. replicative factors e. release factors

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The leaf arrangement illustrated in Figure 34-1 is:


a. pinnate.
b. alternate.
c. compound.
d. whorled.
e. parallel.

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