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In the mid-seventeenth century, Dutch scientist Jan Baptista van Helmont struggled to understand where plants get the material that allows them to grow larger.
What is the overall relationship between atmosphere, weather, and climate?
Now you want to perform a cross of only of the purple flowered plants from this F1 generation (remember that these plants can just self-fertilize). What would be the expected F2 genotypic and phenotyp
An historical timeline for the major scientific discoveries that has led to our current understanding of the topic.
1. Injections of TC cells completely removed all Hepatitis B viruses from infected mice, but the injections killed only 5% of the infected liver cells. Explain how TC cells cured the mice.
Joseph is a 59-year-old construction worker who recently suffered a stroke. A small blood clot became lodged in one of the vessels serving the right side of his brain and restricted blood flow to a po
Other than water and waste, name some important substances Nathan excreted in his urine.
If the couple has two children, what are the chances that both kids will be unable to consume alcohol?
The following figure shows two steps in the processing of Okazaki fragments in replication of the lagging strand. Choose the description that best describes what happens between these two steps.
Discuss e-waste.How many computers and computer-related devices are simply discarded with the regular trash?
Medical advances save lives, but does technology go too far? Discuss whether anything and everything should be done to save a person's life.
One with type A, one with type AB, and one with type B. Relatives suspect that one of the children was adopted. which child is adopted?
How does the change in the sodium concentration detected from MRI of the hippocampus suggest that the neurons in the hippocampus became diseased and were not functioning properly?
What is Six primary functions of proteins and how can you Identify ways the body uses proteins?
Search the literature to find evidence to support whether one of the "myths" below is fact or fiction.
You are working in a research lab on a genetic condition in humans that results in a patient's inability to digest the common sugar fructose. Your lab has observed that this condition is equally frequ
explanations for anti-measles antibodies in the patient's blood?
Cell lines A and B both survive in tissue culture containing serum but do not proliferate. Addition of Factor F stimulates proliferation of cell line A but not cell line B. Cell line A produces a norm
An enzyme in a large population of a newly discovered diploid plant. You have determined that there are 4 alleles for this enzyme. You designate the alleles C, R, A and P, you analyze 1500 plants 
For each of the E. coli strains below, determine the effect of the genotype on expression of the trpE and trpC genes in the presence and absence of tryptophan. In the wild-type strain (genotype: R+ P+
Describe the roles of fatty acyl-CoA (such as palmitoyl CoA) and malonyl CoA in the reciprocal regulation of fatty acid synthesis and breakdown.
A symbiotic relationship between a phage and a bacterium apparently occurs in the process of lysogeny
You observe that an interesting mutant phenotype has arisen in your cell culture.
lease explain any calculation that needs to be done.
Decrease the negativity of the membrane potential