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About _____ percent of all new cases of stis worldwide occur in people under the age of 26.

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Correct Answer: 50

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In plants and algae, _____ is the source of the electrons needed for photosynthesis.

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Correct Answer: H2O

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The cell cycle results in the production of ______.

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Correct Answer: Two cells, each with the same amount of genetic material and the same genetic information

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Replication moves outward from the origin in ________ direction(s) and is said to be ________.

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Correct Answer: Both, bidirectional

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Red blood cells undergo anaerobic metabolism, which means that they produce ________.

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Correct Answer: Lactate

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In humans, fertilization usually occurs ________ after intercourse, if an egg is present.

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Correct Answer: 6-24 hours

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In the redox reactions of cellular respiration, a cell uses both _____ and oxygen.

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Correct Answer: Glucose

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A ____ is software that is a cumulative package of all security updates plus additional features.

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Correct Answer: Service pack

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Cells obtain energy by __________ food molecules such as glucose.

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Correct Answer: Oxidizing

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C4 plants have evolved different photosynthetic mechanisms. these plants _____.

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Correct Answer: Fix CO2 into a four-carbon compound instead of a three-carbon compound

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Autotrophs use the ____________ to make organic molecules.

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Correct Answer: Calvin cycle

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At the conclusion of glycolysis, most of glucose's chemical energy is found in the ________.

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Correct Answer: Pyruvic acid molecules

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After 3-pga is phosphorylated, it receives energized electrons from _____.

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Correct Answer: NADPH

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After 3-pga is phosphorylated, it is reduced by _____.

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Correct Answer: NADPH

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Yeast is used to make bread rise by producing ________ during fermentation.

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Correct Answer: CO2

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When something appears blue, it is absorbing all colors except __________.

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Correct Answer: Blue.

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When oxygen is released as a result of photosynthesis, it is a direct by-product of _____.

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Correct Answer: Splitting water molecules.

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The spindle apparatus disintegrates during _____. anaphase telophase interphase metaphase

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Correct Answer: Telophase

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The process of respiration is ___ % efficient at harnessing the chemical energy in food.

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Correct Answer: Cellular respiration is more efficient at harnessing energy from glucose than car engines are at harnessing energy from gasoline.

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The primary role of oxygen in cellular respiration is to _____.

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Correct Answer: Act as an acceptor for electrons and hydrogen, forming water

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The most important role of pigments in photosynthesis is to _____.

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Correct Answer: Capture light energy

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The light reactions of photosynthesis occur in the __________.

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Correct Answer: Thylakoids.

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The growth cycle requires _____ to run.

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Correct Answer: Energy.

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Limiting calories and increasing exercise will cause cells to harvest energy from _____ molecules.

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Correct Answer: Fat

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Large amounts of oxygen gas first appeared in earth's atmosphere about ______ years ago.

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Correct Answer: 2.7 billion

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A prokaryotic cell has _______ but does not have _______.

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Correct Answer: DNA; membrane-bound organelles

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The hybridization of the oxygen atom labeled x in the structure below is ________.

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Correct Answer: Sp2.

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For a molecule with the formula ab3, the molecular shape is ________.

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Correct Answer: Trigonal planar, trigonal pyramidal, or T-shaped

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Ribosomal rna accumulates within __________.

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Correct Answer: Nucleoli

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Biochemical analysis uses similarities in __________ as evidence for evolutionary relationships.

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Correct Answer: DNA sequences

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Eukaryotic dna is located in the ________ , and its message reaches the ribosome via the _________.

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Correct Answer: Nucleus; nuclear pores

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Epidermal growth factor stimulates __________.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Enzymes have specific _____ that determine their function.

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Correct Answer: Shapes

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In a dna double helix, _____________________.

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Correct Answer: The two DNA strands run antiparallel

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Facilitated diffusion would not usually be needed to move _______________________across a membrane?

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Correct Answer: Small, hydrophobic molecules

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A bacterium running low on nadph could ________ to generate more of this coenzyme.

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Correct Answer: Invoke the pentose phosphate pathway

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The 2n number for the cell depicted here is ________.

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Correct Answer: Two

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If there is no flow of extraembryonic fluid over a mouse embryo, ___________.

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Correct Answer: The left-right asymmetry decision for the embryo is made at random

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Microtubules have an inner diameter of ________ and an outer diameter of ________.

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Correct Answer: 25 nm; 30 nm

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Absorbance is _________________________ the concentration of molecules in a solution.

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Correct Answer: Molarity

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Gene silencing is called __________.

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Correct Answer: Genomic imprinting

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Nuclear pores are organized with _______ symmetry

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Correct Answer: Eightfold

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Protein synthesis ___________ during exercise and ____________ after exercise.

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Correct Answer: Decreases, increases

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In plant cells, ______ may contain organic nutrients, pigments, and poisons.

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Correct Answer: Central vacuoles

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The ability to distinguish among 20004000 olfactory stimuli is called __________.

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Correct Answer: Olfactory discrimination

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A karyotype (a chromosome display) would be unable to determine ______.

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Correct Answer: Eye color

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Information coming into the central nervous system is transmitted along ________ neurons.

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Correct Answer: Afferent and sensory

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The ____________ phase is when most cell growth will occur; dna is unreplicated.

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Correct Answer: First gap (G1)

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The tca cycle enzymes are located in the _________ in bacterial and archaeal cells.

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Correct Answer: Cytoplasm

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Asexual reproduction _____. see concept 13.1 (page 255)

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Correct Answer: Produces offspring genetically identical to the parent

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The _____ forms of the electron carriers nad+/nadh and fadh/fadh2 have high potential energy.

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Correct Answer: Reduced

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Deamination is the removal of a(n) _____ group in proteins.

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Correct Answer: Amino

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The "proton pumps" indicated in the figure are physically associated with ______.

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Correct Answer: The electron transport chain

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The ordinary light microscope is called a bright-field microscope because _____.

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Correct Answer: The object appears dark on a light background

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Chemiosmosis uses __________ to supply the energy necessary to phosphorylate adp to atp.

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Correct Answer: A proton gradient

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Incoming photons of light energy initiate photosynthesis by _____.

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Correct Answer: Exciting electrons in pigment molecules within the photosystems, raising them to a higher energy level

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A generalized ____________ contains an antenna complex and a reaction center.

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Correct Answer: Photosystem

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We inhale o2 and we exhale co2. carbon dioxide is produced __________.

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Correct Answer: In the reaction that creates acetyl CoA (coenzyme A) from pyruvate

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The karyotype of a trisomic individual is symbolized as ____.

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Correct Answer: 2n+1 - Trisomy indicates an extra copy of one chromosome.

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Chromatin consists of ______.

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Correct Answer: DNA and protein

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During the absorptive state, metabolism favors energy storage and __________.

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Correct Answer: Anabolism

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A typical cell contains "powerhouses," which is another name for ____.

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Correct Answer: Mitochondria

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In conifers, male gametophytes are called _______ and are formed by the division of microspores.

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Correct Answer: Pollen

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During translation, uncharged trna molecules leave the ribosome from the _________ site.

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Correct Answer: E

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During the germinal period, the first task of the zygote's outer cells is _____.

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Correct Answer: Implantation

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During the final events of cellular respiration, oxygen combines with ________ to form ________.

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Correct Answer: Energy-depleted electrons and hydrogen ions

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During cellular respiration, energy is stored in the form of _______.

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Correct Answer: ATP

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During _____, the sister chromatids line up in the midplane of the cell.

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Correct Answer: Metaphase.

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Cytokinesis typically occurs during the ______ stage of mitosis.

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Correct Answer: Anaphase

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The golgi apparatus packages materials into ________ for transport or export.

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Correct Answer: Vesicles

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Increasing the pressure above the beaker is analogous to _______.

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Correct Answer: An increase in blood pressure

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If a cell has accumulated dna damage, it is unlikely to _____.

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Correct Answer: Pass the G2 checkpoint

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Calcium ions could be described as "third messengers" because __________.

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Correct Answer: They are small cytosolic signal molecules whose activity is regulated first by a ligand and second by a second messenger, making them the third step in a cascade

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Anterograde movement of transition vesicles is from __________.

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Correct Answer: The rough ER to the cis Golgi

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All collagen family members consist of _____ chains arranged in a _______.

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Correct Answer: 3, triple helix

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Mpf is a dimer consisting of _____.

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Correct Answer: Cyclin and a cyclin-dependent kinase

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Centrosomes are structures that contain ____________ oriented ____________ .

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Correct Answer: Centrioles perpendicularly

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Binding of calcium to calmodulin is a step in excitation-contraction coupling of ________ cells.

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Correct Answer: Smooth muscle

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Emerging viruses that infect human cells can originate from __________.

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Correct Answer: A virus spreading from one host species to humans

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The essential molecule __________ comprises over 60 percent of any living organism's cells.

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Correct Answer: Water

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Signals from the extracellular matrix to the cytoskeleton may be transmitted by _____.

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Correct Answer: Integrins

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Cancerous cells may continuously change their glycocalyx. this may result in ________.

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Correct Answer: The cancer cell avoiding destruction by keeping one step ahead of the immune system

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Green algae differ from land plants in that many green algae _____.

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Correct Answer: Are unicellular

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In leukemia, an overproduction of abnormal white blood cells can also mean __________.

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Correct Answer: Too few normal blood cells

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The cleavage of glycogen by glycogen phosphorylase releases _____

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Correct Answer: Glucose-1-phosphate

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When we say that an organism is haploid, we mean that __________.

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Correct Answer: Its cells each have one set of chromosomes.

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The reaction a --> b + c + heat is released in a(n) _____ reaction.

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Correct Answer: Exergonic.

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The process of photosynthesis probably originated _____.

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Correct Answer: In prokaryotes

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The karyotype above shows ________.

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Correct Answer: Trisomy 21, a cause of downsyndrome

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The inheritance of wheat kernel color shown in figure 14.21 is an example of _____.

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Correct Answer: Polygenic inheritance

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The first electron acceptor of cellular respiration is ______.

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Correct Answer: Oxygen

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Sexual intercourse in humans ______.

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Correct Answer: Allows a haploid sperm cell to fertilize a haploid egg cell

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Movement of the chromosomes during anaphase would be most affected by a drug that prevents _____.

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Correct Answer: Prevents shortening of microtubules.

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Mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to have been ______

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Correct Answer: Endosymbiosis

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Meiosis i produces _____ cells

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Correct Answer: Two, haploid.

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Crossing over during prophase i results in ________.

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Correct Answer: Genetic recombination.

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Carbon dioxide is split to form oxygen gas and carbon compounds _____.

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Correct Answer: In neither photosynthesis nor respiration

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Carbohydrates and fats are considered high-energy foods because they _____.

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Correct Answer: Have a lot of oxygen atoms.

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According to the induced fit hypothesis of enzyme catalysis, _____.

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Correct Answer: The binding of the substrate changes the shape of the enzyme's active site

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________ cells in leaves are specialized for photosynthesis.

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Correct Answer: Mesophyll

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