Which would create a more acute dietary shortage for human beings - the loss of monocot crops or the
loss of dicot crops? What will be an ideal response?
While the loss of either would be devastating, the loss of monocots would have the more immediate
impact. Monocots represent our grass crops - wheat, rice, corn, oats, barley, and the like. These plants
provide the majority of the calories for most of the people on the planet, not to mention food for many
of the animals we cultivate. The loss of legumes, peas and lentils would be devastating from a protein
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A ____ is distinct from a food web in that it illustrates the movement of energy—not carbon—between different organisms in an environment
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Which of the following proteins binds to DNA with sequence specificity (select all correct choices)?
A. Pol III holoenzyme B. DnaA C. DnaB D. Dam methylase
For a multifactorial, polygenic trait, the characteristic shape of the mathematical plot of frequency for each phenotype class is
A) linear, going up. B) linear, going down. C) a bell curve. D) a square curve.
In gymnosperms and angiosperms, a plant embryo (young sporophyte) packaged with a food supply in a tough outer coat is a
A. sperm. B. seed. C. pollen grain. D. gemmae. E. fruit.