Your relatively undiverse tongue microbiome is shaped primarily by environmental factors like temperature and osmotic stress. If you transplanted microbes from your forearm onto your tongue and then re-sampled your tongue 8 hrs later, what would you expect to find?

What will be an ideal response?


Phylogenetic diversity would have dropped to tongue levels

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The cross represented by a+b+c+/abc × abc/abc is

A) a two-point testcross. B) a three-point testcross. C) a parental cross. D) a haploid cross. E) None of these

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Phylogenetic systematics produces branching diagrams called:a

phylogenic trees. b. cladistic trees. c. phenograms. d. molecular clocks. e. cladograms.

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Which one of the following is TRUE regarding enzymes?

A) Enzyme function is not affected by changes in temperature or pH. B) Enzymes slow the rate of chemical reactions in living systems. C) Enzymes are consumed in a chemical reaction, so an organism must constantly replace these enzymes. D) Each enzyme catalyzes one specific reaction or group of reactions. E) Enzymes convert products into reactants.

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