What is a 15-meter tall tree fern?
A. A gametophyte
B. A sporophyte
C. Haploid
D. Produced by meiosis
Answer: B
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An organism at the top of the food chain:
A. has no natural prey B. has no, or very few, natural predators C. experiences no selection pressures D. is not subject to evolutionary changes
Your phagocytes produce transmembrane proteins called toll-like receptors (TLR), but your mast cells do not because _____________
A. your phagocytes carry the genetic information to make TLRs but your mast cells do not. B. your phagocytes run transcription and translation but your mast cells only run transcription. C. some of your body's cells contain ribosomes but most do not. D. your phagocytes express some genes that are not expressed in your mast cells (and visa versa).
Choose the true statements about orthologs and paralogs.
_____ Orthologs are likely to have the same function. _____ Both orthologs and paralogs result from gene duplication. _____ The sequence of an ortholog is more likely to be conserved than the sequence of a paraloge. _____ Paralogs are more likely to be pseudogenes than are orthologs. _____ Paralogs often evolve new functions.
As a pond starts to dry out at the end of the rainy spring season, a researcher notices that toads
burrow into the soil where they can hibernate for up to nine months. What is the benefit of hibernation?
a. reduced metabolic rate that ensures survival b. increased body temperature that ensures survival c. a period of time during which the animal completes sexual maturity d. all of these