Daniel Arnold

Questions

• How many body segments do crustaceans have? What are they called?
• Kangaroos that nurse their young in a pouch are what type of mammal?
• Why do birth control pills contain progesterone?
• What types of wildlife are targeted by poachers?
• On what surface would the mouth of a starfish be located?
• Why did the invention of PCR make DNA fingerprinting possible?
• What would happen to a protein if a nitrogen base is changed during protein synthesis?
• A scientist wants to insert a new gene into a bacterium. What is the first step in this process?
• What term is used to describe the way a virus is passed to a host organism?
• What is the basic unit of a nucleic acid?
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder that arises from a recessive X-linked allele. Why is this disorder almost aways restricted to males?
• In comparing aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration, how much more effective is aerobic cellular respiration in net energy release?
• In an angiosperm, pollen grains are produced in the what?
• What are the excretory organs of insects called?
• Which stages of the cell cycle generally require about the same amount of time in all human cells?
• How are ferns more complex than mosses but still less complex than flowering plants?
• During transcription, what happens to the RNA polymerase if a repressor protein attaches to the operator?
• What glucose polymer makes up the cell wall of a plant cell?
• What strand of DNA is used to make a complementary copy or to make a complementary mRNA molecule?
• Explain how convergent evolution results in features with a similar function but a dissimilar structure?
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