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If a virus enters the lytic phase in a host's cell, it will cause the host cell to | Lyse due to the action of enzymes |
Which type of selection acts to eliminate individuals at one extreme of a phenotypic range? | Directional selection |
A scientist is studying endosymbiosis in cells. This means she is investigating | How mitochondria and chloroplasts were derived from prokaryotic cells. |
The evolution of conducting tubes (sieve tubes) in land plants and brown algae is an example of | Homoplasy caused by convergence. |
A group is considered monophyletic if | All members of the group share a common ancestor that is included in the group. |
Crop sunflowers are attacked by many fungal pathogens, such as downy mildew and Sclerotinia, resulting in economic losses of millions of dollars per year. What genes would be best to target for the development of new fungus-killing crop treatments (fungicides)? | Genes encoding chitin proteins that are shared by downy mildew and Sclerotinia, but absent in sunflower and humans. |
Which one of the following is not important to the concept of homology? | None of the features being compared can be vestigial. |
The side toes of a horse, the pelvis of the whale, and the human appendix are all examples of structures that resemble structures of presumed ancestors, which are known as | Vestigial structures. |
Which "alternate" hypothesis might also explain industrial melanism? | Dark moths are more resistant to the toxic effects of pollution than light moths. |
Comparing the evolution of domesticated dogs to the evolution of wolves over the same time period illustrates what relationship between artificial and natural selection? | Artificial selection is more likely to produce maladaptive structures than natural selection. |
Tuberculosis remains a serious worldwide health problem due to all of the following except | Absence of MDR strains. |
If the label on a slide reads Gram-positive bacillus, what would a student expect to see? | Purple rod shaped cells |
Which of the following is an example of hypothesis-driven research? | You propose that the consumption of chocolate immediately prior to taking the biology midterm will result in a high grade. You hand out a chocolate bar to half of the people in the class and instruct them to eat it immediately prior to taking the test. After the test you analyze the grade distribution to determine if students who ate chocolate got higher grades than students who did not eat chocolate. |
There are more than 30 blood group genes in humans, in addition to the ABO locus. This increases __________ in human populations. | Genetic variability |
Which of the following statements about emerging viruses is false? | The stable genome of the SARS virus makes it an unlikely candidate for vaccine development. |
Analysis of air bubbles trapped in rocks shows a drop in the level of carbon-12 (relative to other isotopes) in rocks that are 3.8 - 3.7 billion years old when compared to rocks that are 3.9 - 4.0 billion years old. How is this possible? | Living organisms that appeared approximately 3.8 billion years ago preferentially use carbon-12. |
Two principal organelles of eukaryotes that share features with one another and with bacteria from which they apparently were derived are the | Mitochondria and chloroplasts. |
Using the sequencing results for genomes from each of the kingdoms, it is currently possible | To explore genetic differences between species very directly, examining DNA changes. |
There are more than 30 blood group genes in humans, in addition to the ABO locus. This increases __________ in human populations. | Genetic variability |
Evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because | Earth is not a closed system; it constantly receives an input of energy from the sun. |
What was demonstrated by the Miller-Urey experiment? | Organic molecules important to life could have been formed from a vast array of simple chemicals. |
The evolutionary sequence in the development of a complex character can be best analyzed through | Synapomorphies |
Virulent viruses multiply within infected cells and eventually | Cause lysis of the host cell, releasing new viruses. |
The onset of AIDS is often accompanied by | A steep drop in T cell numbers. |
Dental plaque (a biofilm), a first stage in tooth decay, consists of | Bacteria surrounded by a polysaccharide matrix. |
Two bird species have different mating calls, occupy different habitats in nature, and when they hybridize, the hybrids are infertile. Which isolating mechanisms maintain these species? | Ecological isolation, behavioral isolation, and hybrid sterility |
Hybridization regularly occurs between three species of Darwin's finches on Daphne Major, but the finches are still considered different species because | They occupy different niches. |
Conducting research without a preconceived hypothesis is called | Discovery-based science. |
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a theory? | It it limited in scope compared with a hypothesis. |