A community of organisms and the physical environment it occupies are known together as a(n)____

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.


ecosystem

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a. water vapor b. carbon dioxide c. nitrite d. nitrate e. nitrogen gas

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A patient's serum is analyzed and found to have an abnormally low level of CD8 molecules. This

suggests that the patient has insufficient numbers of

a. macrophages. b. B cells. c. cytotoxic T cells. d. helper T cells. e. NK cells.

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Which feature is true for RNA polymerase activity but NOT true for DNA polymerase activity?

a. Precursor nucleotides can contain adenine, guanine, or cytosine. b. Growth of nucleotide sequence is only in the 5??3? direction. c. Newly synthesized strands are antiparallel to its template strand. d. Nucleotide primer is unnecessary.

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