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A. Francis Crick and James Watson C. Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

D. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Charles

B. Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
Lyell

Nature

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A. Francis Crick and James Watson C. Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

D. J. Herbert Taylor, Philip Woods, and

B. Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
Walter Hughes

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A. A nitrogen from the nitrogen-containing

C. Sixth carbon atom of the sugar
base

B. 3’ OH of the deoxyribose D. 5’ phosphate

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A. Dispersive C. Semiconservative

B. Antiparallel D. Complementary

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A. 8% C. 42%

B. 16% D. 58%

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A. 5’ GCCTAGG 3’ C. 5’ ACGTTAGG 3’

B. 5’ GCCUAGG 3’ D. 5’ ACGUUAGG 3’

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A. 5’ ATG CAA GAT AAC TGG AAG TGA 3’ C. 5’ ATG CAA GAT AAC TGG AAG 3’

B. 3’ TAC GTT CTA TTG ACC TTC ACT 5’ D. 3’ TAC GTT CTA TTG ACC TTC 5’

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C. Aspartic acid will substitute for glutamic

A. A chromosomal mutation has occurred.
acid in the resulting polypeptide chain.

D. There will be no change in the amino

B. The resulting protein will be unable to
acid sequence of the resulting
function.
polypeptide chain.

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E. coli

A. Replication would only occur on the C. Replication would not occur on either
lagging strand. the leading or lagging strand.

D. Replication would not be affected as

B. Replication would only occur on the
the enzyme primase is involved in RNA
leading strand.
synthesis.

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A. Reverse transcriptase C. DNA ligase

B. Restriction enzyme D. Plasmid

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A. Escherichia coli C. Corynebacterium diptheriae

B. Bacillus thuringiensis D. Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Rhizobium radiobacter

A. Gene therapy C. Pharmacogenomics

B. Diagnotic Testing D. DNA-based vaccines

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ex vivo
in vivo

Ex vivo In vivo

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A. Gene therapy C. Gene therapy

B. Gene therapy D. Gene therapy

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A. Electroporation C. Chemical transformation

B. Phage introduction D. Non-bacterial transformation

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A. Diagnostic Testing C. Pharma products

B. Gene therapy D. Vaccines

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A. Bacterial RNA polymerase cannot make

C. Bacteria translate only mRNAs that
RNA complementary to mammalian
have multiple messages.
DNA.

B. Prokaryotes use a different genetic

D. Bacteria cannot remove introns.
code from that of eukaryotes.

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A. Catastrophism C. Gradualism

B. Creationism D. Idealism

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A. The diversity of organisms depends C. New organs arise as a result of common

upon genetic mutation. ancestry.

B. Useful characteristics which are D. Variations are produced by gene

acquired are inherited. combinations.

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A. Different embryological development C. No morphological similarities

B. Several homologous structures D. Few molecular homologies

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A. No mutation C. No natural selection

B. No gene flow D. Large population size

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Certhidea Camarhynchus
Camarhynchus
Geospiza

A. The chances of hybridization between two
ground finch species should be less than the
chances of hybridization between two tree
finch species.
C. They should share fewer anatomical
homologies with each other than they
share with the tree finches.

B. Their genomes should be more similar to D. They should be limited to the six islands
each other than are the genomes of that most recently emerged from the
the five tree finch species. sea.

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A. These plants are of the same species C. Although these plants likely do not share a
with slight differences in their physical recent common ancestor, they have been
attributes. subjected to the same selective pressures.

D. These adaptations likely arose in a common

B. These plants likely share a recent
ancestor on Pangea, and continental drift
common ancestor and have been later moved these drought- and fire-adapted
subjected to the same selective pressures. plants to their present locations.

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C. The herbicide company lost its triazine

A. Triazine-resistant weeds were more likely
formula and started selling poor-quality
to survive and reproduce.
triazine.

D. Natural selection caused the pigweed

B. Triazine-resistant pigweeds has less-
to mutate, creating a new triazine-
efficient photosynthesis metabolism.
resistant species.

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A. The structure should be present and C. The structure should be absent from
also have no function. fossils of ancestors of this species.

D. A similar structure should be present,

B. The structure should look different and
but it would be larger and have a
also have no function.
function.

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A. Sympatric speciation; habitat C. Allopatric speciation; behavioral

differentiation isolation

B. Allopatric speciation; ecological

D. Sympatric speciation; allopolyploidy
isolation

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