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| In many plants, the seed is covered by cells derived from the plant ovary |
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| Insects have ventral nerve cord and vertebrates have a dorsal nerve cord |
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| Most protists lack a cell wall and all primarily exist as single cells- |
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| All prokaryotes cause disease in one or more host organisms |
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| The hereditary material in Achaea, Bacteria and Eukaryotes is DNA |
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| A common feature of the prokaryotes is an absence of a true nucleus.- |
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| Koch’s postulates can be summarized by stating that a single disease is caused by a single isolatable prokaryotic species |
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| Some bacteria are able to fix N2 gas, enabling the formation of amino acids and other N contain cellular components |
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| The organisms most likely to be used in biotechnology are the fungi |
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| Most plants are not able to use atmospheric nitrogen to make amino acids- |
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| An example of a dicot angiosperm would be corn |
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| All animals are classified as vertebrates |
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| If the number of chromosomes sets in the plant embryo is 2, the number of chromosomes sets in the endosperm is 4 |
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| The surface tension property of water is a property used by plants for transport of nutrients |
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| Early mammalian embryos are more similar to early dish embryos than they are to adult primates |
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| Protists have nerves that coordinate muscular contractions |
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| A biological species is any group of organisms that shares at least one segment of identical DNA |
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| Ferns cannot be a source of carbohydrate for any other organism |
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| One will find essentially the same number and similar shaped skeletal bones in chimpanzee and humans |
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| All animals with hair are classified as mammals |
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| All animals have nerves that coordinate muscular constrictions |
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| A biological species is any group of organisms that shares at least one segment of identical DNA |
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| Both monocots and dicots are angiosperms |
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| A major challenge for a terrestrial plant is the ability to acquire and retain water |
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| Most plants contain more protein than carbohydrates and cellulose |
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| Seed dispersal in plants is aided by modifications derived from the ovary of the plant |
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| An example of Gymnosperm would be a pine tree |
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| The form of nitrogen used directly by most plants is in the gaseous form N2 |
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| The stage of the plant we normally call moss is the diploid stage of this organism |
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| Insects and other arthropods have a ventral nerve cord |
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| A single pea or bean or corn kernel are seeds and contain both the plant zygote as well as nutrients for the embryo |
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| All vertebrates possess a notochord and are classified as chordates |
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| The bronchial slits present in fish embryos are also present in the neck region of mammals at a comparable early stage in the embryonic development |
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| The largest number of different species of animals are found in the vertebrates |
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| At an early stage the mammalian embryo has rudimentary multiple arm and leg outgrowths |
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| Most plants use a special one way valve that enables them to pump water from the ground to the leaves |
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| D.W Thompson’s ideas are helpful in understanding how different species have comparable anatomical parts but with different shapes |
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| Changes in the morphology of a species are observed at a very late step in embryogenesis, after the late stage embryo has completed the formation of all normal structures |
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| Corn, wheat, rye are classified as a different species of grass |
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| Single cell protists are considered animals |
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| The transition from invertebrates to chordates appears to involve a 180 degree twits in the brain and spinal cord |
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| The term eukaryote means a cell with a nucleus but lacking DNA |
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| An axenic culture is one which contains no foreign organisms or species other than the one used for experiment |
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| A sterile preparation is one that contains no living organisms |
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| An example of an angiosperm species would be the common garden pea |
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