Questions tagged [homework]
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Question on Plasmodium presence in RBCs
Malarial parasite can be obtained in RBCs of patient
When temperature reaches normal
An hour before rise in temperature
When temperature rises with rigor
A few hours after temperature reaches normal
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Identification of the anatomy of a hydra (cnidaria)
I need help identifying the parts (4, 8, 9 and 10) of this hydra in the given diagram. The other parts have already been identified:
epidermis
gastrodermis
mesoglea
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tentacles
cnidocytes
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What's the difference between phylogenetics, systematics, and cladistics?
Just started systematics in college and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around new terminology.
I know that systematics is the study of biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships that ...
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What are the molecular and developmental mechanisms that explain why the stylopod is longer than the zeugo. or autopod in vertebrate limb development?
I'm an undergraduate biology student working on a thesis about limb development. One question that came up in a discussion with my supervisor was: "Why is the stylopod typically longer than the ...
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Will this oligonucleotide anneal with the DNA strand? If the answer is yes , locate the position of annealing
Oligonucleotide:
5'-GGATGCCT-3'
DNA strand: 5'-CCTACGGATCTCGGATGCCTTT -3'
What i did was:
Reverse the Oligonucleotide to 3'- 5'
3'-TCCGTAGG-5'
Find the complementary of Oligonucleotide
5' AGGCATCC 3'
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How to explain this difference in the type of cytokine produced by helper T cells due to the way of infection?
Several rats were divided into two groups $A$ and $B$. The rats in group $A$ had staphylococcus aureus daubed on their ears, while the rats in group $B$ had staphylococcus aureus injected into their ...
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Can phenotype change without change in genotype?
If a person with lighter skin is to live in areas close to the equator for a long amount of time, their skin would get darker, and hence their phenotype gets 'altered'.
If I'm to look at their gene ...
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Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium; Homozygous individuals
I have the following exercise that I can't solve:
In a sample there are 16 homozygous A1 allele carriers
(A1/A1) and 24 heterozygous A1/A2 allele carriers. How many homozygous A2 allele carriers (A2/...
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Table is confusing: Discovery of tRNA publication
I'm a student and kinda new to reading papers; currently trying to read A SOLUBLE RIBONUCLEIC ACID INTERMEDIATE IN PROTEIN SYNTHESIS!
Everything else I can parse together given what we now know about ...
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Is Kranz anatomy not a defining feature of $C_4$ plants?
In NCERT Class 11 chapter 13 it is written that
The particularly large cells around the vascular bundles of the C4 plants are called bundle sheath cells, and the leaves which have such anatomy are ...
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Probability of an $AABbCC$ offspring given the cross $AaBbCc\times AaBbCc$, is my solution correct?
So I have been working through the drills in the 26th edition of AP Biology Prep by The Princeton Review for fun when I came across this question in the Chapter 12 drill that I'm not really sure about ...
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What is a simple small scale procedure for plastination of a cucumber?
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In words a high school student will understand, what procedure can a student apply to plastinate a cucumber?
A cursory article on plastination can be found here.
Motivation
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Competitive inhibition - Similarity between substrate and inhibitor
I have this question -
Q. Competitive inhibitor which binds to the enzyme (a) has structural similarity with the product (b) is chemically similar to the substrate (c) has physical structure similar ...
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Flow of left ventricle into the aorta
I am currently practising for an exam and am having trouble understanding one of the exam questions:
The table gives the blood flow rate in various parts of the fetal circulation.
Flow rate in mL min-...
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Evolution of Anoles
For context, I am currently looking at this virtual lab of Lizard Evolution by HHMI biointeractive.
Trunk anoles from an island called Iron Cay were placed in a few experimental islands filled with ...
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