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Biology Life 102
Ana's Freebies Exam 4- Bjostad
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2012

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The tryptophan operon is a repressible operon that is
Definition
Turned off whenever tryptophan is added to the growth medium.
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Why are viruses referred to as obligate parasites?
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They cannot reproduce outside of a host cell.
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A transposon acts differently from other types of genetic recombination because it:
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Scatters genes to new loci in the genome.
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Homology is
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Similarity resulting from common ancestry.
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Sparrows with averageā€sized wings survive severe storms better than those with longer or shorter wings, and this illustrates
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Stabilizing selection.
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