If you boil a cup of water with a tablespoon of dried shitake mushrooms and take a sip after it cools down, your taste receptors will identify the following flavor: ________

A) sweet
B) salty
C) umami
D) bitter


C

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Explain what occurs when the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene

contains a mutation.

What will be an ideal response?

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Normal cells stop their division when it gets too crowded, which is celled ______ inhibition.

a. density-independent b. density-dependent c. contact inhibition d. none of the above

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As ATP moves from the matrix of the mitochondrion to the cytoplasm of a cell, how many membranes will it pass?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 2 D. 1

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