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What role does cholesterol play in the plasma membrane?
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It maintains optimal fluidity in the membrane.
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Why do we think of the plasma membrane as a semipermeable membrane?
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The plasma membrane is somewhat permeable to water and some other substances but is impermeable to other substances.
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What metabolic pathway occurs in the cytoplasm of the cell?
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Glycolysis and fermentation only.
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If a daughter cell contains six chromosomes at the end of meiosis I, how many chromosomes will each of the daughter cells contain at the end of meiosis II?
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6 because it will be the same.
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A couple has had three children, all of whom are boys. When the woman becomes pregnant a fourth time, they are hopeful that this one is a girl. What is the chance that this child will be a girl?
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1/2 because sex is determined by the male gamete, which can be carrying either an X or Y chromosome. Therefore, there is a 1/2 change that it is a girl and previous offspring have no effect on this outcome.
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In one of the steps of the carbon cycle, a person exhales a molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Which of the following is most likely to happen next to the atom of carbon in this molecule?
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It may be used as part of a sugar in a plant.
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When gametes are produced from a parent cell during normal meiosis, which of the following describes the number of chromosomes in each resulting cell?
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Each resulting cell has one-half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
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In mussels, the allele for brown coloring (B) is dominant, and the allele for blue coloring (b) is recessive. For which parental genotypes are 100% of the offspring expected to be blue?
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bb X bb
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An RNA sequence is shown at right. A U G C C G A A A C G U Which of the following statements describes how the RNA sequence specifies the production of an amino acid chain?
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Each group of three RNA bases codes for a single amino acid.
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