Nutritional mutants in Neurospora can be "cured" by treating the medium with substances in the defective metabolic pathway. What determines whether the mutant strain (auxotroph) is "cured" by a particular substance?
What will be an ideal response?
The substance needs to be added after the metabolic block in the biochemical pathway.
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a. the ability to utilize acetate. b. the ability to liquefy serum. c. glucose utilization tests. d. growth on MacConkey agar.
Which of the following is increased amphibian diversity correlated with?
A) sea surface temperature B) net primary productivity C) altitude D) distribution of land area across the globe
Water is transported vertically through the plant via the process of translocation. Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Telomerase reads ________ as a template and synthesizes ________ as a product
A) DNA; DNA B) DNA; protein C) RNA; RNA D) RNA; DNA E) DNA; RNA