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"question": "The calypso orchid, Calypso bulbosa, grows in close association with mycorrhizae fungi. The fungi penetrate the roots of the flower and take advantage of the plant's food resources. The fungi concentrate rare minerals, such as phosphates, in the roots and make them readily accessible to the orchid. This situation is an example of",
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"question": "ADH is a hormone secreted by the kidneys that reduces the amount of water excreted in the urine. ADH is released in times of dehydration. This is an example of",
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"question": "In minks, the gene for brown fur (B) is dominant over the gene for silver fur (b). Which set of genotypes represents a cross that could produce offspring with silver fur from parents that both have brown fur?",
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"question": "Male satin bowerbirds adorn structures that they build, called \"bowers,\" with parrot feathers, flowers, and other bizarre ornaments in order to attract females. Females inspect the bowers and, if suitably impressed, allow males to mate with them. The evolution of this male behavior is due to",
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"question": "Which of the following statements most detracts from the claim that the human appendix is a completely vestigial organ?",
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"question": "Yeast cells carry out both aerobic and anaerobic respiration. A yeast cell that is fed on glucose is moved from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment. Which of the following statements is correct and gives the correct reason for it?",
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"question": "A researcher conducts a survey of a biome and finds 35 percent more species than she has found in any other biome. Which biome is she most likely to be in?",
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"question": "Short sequence by promoter that assists transcription by interacting with regulatory proteins.",
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"question": "Hydrangea flowers have one gene for flower color. Plants of the same genetic variety have flowers that range in color from blue to pink with the color varying due to the type of soil in which they are grown. Which of the following statement best explains this phenomenon?",
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"question": "When imbalances occur in the sex ratio of sexual species that have two sexes (i.e., other than a 50:50 ratio), the members of the minority sex often receive a greater proportion of care and resources from parents than do the offspring of the majority sex. This is most clearly an example of",
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"question": "Although mutations occur at a regular and predictable rate, which of the following statements is the LEAST likely reason the frequency of mutation appears to be low?",
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"question": "Crossover would most likely occur in which situation?",
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"question": "Which aspects of cell structure best reveals the unity of all life?",
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"question": "This biome contains plants whose roots cannot go deep due to the presence of a permafrost.",
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"question": "This biome contains trees that drop their leaves during the winter months.",
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"question": "A change in a neuron membrane potential from +50 millivolts to -70 millivolts is considered",
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"question": "Most animal cells, regardless of species, are relatively small and about the same size. Relative to larger cells, why is this?",
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"question": "Which of the following is (are) required when performing a polymerase chain reaction (P C R) on a DNA sample?",
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"question": "Each of the following has a better chance of influencing gene frequencies in small populations than in large populations, but which one most consistently requires a small population as a precondition for its occurrence?",
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"question": "No two people are genetically identical, except for identical twins. The chief cause of genetic variation among human individuals is",
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"question": "Which of the following statements is NOT correct about ancient Earth?",
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"question": "In modern terminology, diversity is understood to be a result of genetic variation. Sources of variation for evolution include all of the following except",
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"question": "DDT was once considered a \"silver bullet\" that would permanently eradicate insect pests. Today, instead, DDT is largely useless against many insects. Which of these would have been required for this pest eradication effort to be successful in the long run?",
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"question": "Within a few weeks of treatment with the drug 3TC, a patient's HIV population consists entirely of 3TC-resistant viruses. How can this result best be explained?",
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"question": "The higher the proportion of loci that are \"fixed\" in a population, the lower is that population's",
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"question": "The resting membrane potential depends on which of the following? I. Active transport II. Selective permeability III. Differential distribution of ions across the axonal membrane",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis is correct?",
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"question": "When we say that an individual organism has a greater fitness than another individual, we specifically mean that the organism",
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"question": "Most Swiss starlings produce four to five eggs in each clutch. Those producing fewer or more than this have reduced fitness. Which of the following terms best describes this?",
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"question": "Members of two different species possess a similar-looking structure that they use in a similar fashion to perform the same function. Which information would best help distinguish between an explanation based on homology versus one based on convergent evolution?",
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"question": "When driving from east to west in the U.S. from a forest ecosystem to grasslands, trees gradually give way to grasses. Which of the following is the critical factor responsible for this shift?",
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"question": "Within a cell, the amount of protein synthesized using a given mRNA molecule depends in part on which of the following?",
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"question": "All of the following are modes of asexual reproduction EXCEPT",
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"question": "A rooster with gray feathers and a hen with the same phenotype produce 17 gray, 7 black, and 8 white chicks. What is the simplest explanation for the inheritance of these colors in chickens?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about cellular respiration is correct?",
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"question": "Which of the following principles is NOT part of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?",
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"question": "In Darwin's thinking, the more closely related two different organisms are, the",
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"question": "Which of the following is most likely to increase the rate of diffusion of an uncharged solute across the plasma membrane of a cell?",
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"question": "In a certain pond, there are long-finned fish and short-finned fish. A horrific summer thunderstorm leads to the death of a disproportionate number of long-finned fish to the point where the relative frequency of the two forms has drastically shifted. This is an example of",
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"question": "A form of species interaction in which one of the species benefits while the other is unaffected is called",
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"question": "Chemical substances released by organisms that elicit a physiological or behavioral response in other members of the same species are known as",
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"question": "In reference to a segment of DNA, which of the following molecules contains the fewest number of nucleotides?",
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"question": "All viruses contain at least these two principal components:",
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"question": "Imagine an organism whose 2n = 96. Meiosis would leave this organism’s cells with how many chromosomes?",
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"question": "Which of the following represents an idea that Darwin learned from the writings of Thomas Malthus?",
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"question": "Which of the following would most likely describe the fate of a vesicle formed as a result of phagocytosis?",
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"question": "A population undergoes a shift in which those who are really tall and those who are really short decrease in relative frequency compared to those of medium size, due to a change in the availability of resources. This is an example of",
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"question": "Which of the following theories is based on the notion that mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved from prokaryotic cells?",
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"question": "The nucleotide sequence of a DNA molecule is 5′-C-A-T-3′. A mRNA molecule with a complementary codon is transcribed from the DNA in the process of protein synthesis a tRNA pairs with a mRNA codon. What is the nucleotide sequence of the tRNA anticodon?",
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"question": "During drought years on the Galapagos, small, easily eaten seeds become rare, leaving mostly large, hard-cased seeds that only birds with large beaks can eat. If a drought persists for several years, what should one expect to result from natural selection?",
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"question": "A biologist studied a population of squirrels for 15 years. During that time, the population was never fewer than 30 squirrels and never more than 45. Her data showed that over half of the squirrels born did not survive to reproduce, because of competition for food and predation. In a single generation, 90% of the squirrels that were born lived to reproduce, and the population increased to 80. Which inference(s) about this population might be true?",
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"question": "Which group is composed entirely of individuals who maintained that species are fixed (i.e., unchanging)?",
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"question": "Except for identical twins, no two people are genetically identical. Which of the following statements most accurately describes the main source of variation in humans?",
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"question": "An eager AP Biology student interested in studying osmosis and the movement of water in solutions took a dialysis bag containing a 0.5 M solution and placed it into a beaker containing a 0.6 M solution. If this bag were instead placed into a beaker of distilled water, what would be the expected result?",
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"question": "An organism exposed to wild temperature fluctuations shows very little, if any, change in its metabolic rate. This organism is most probably a",
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"question": "What was the prevailing notion prior to the time of Lyell and Darwin?",
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"question": "On Andros Islands in the Bahamas, populations of mosquito fish, Gambusia hubbsi, colonized a series of ponds. These ponds are no longer connected. However, the environments are very similar except that some ponds contain predatory fish, while others do not. In high predation ponds, selection has favored the evolution of a body shape that enables rapid bursts of speed. In low predation ponds, another body type is favored—one that is well-suited to swim for long periods of time.",
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"question": "Which of the following statement is supported by the information given in the pedigree?",
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"question": "A proficient engineer can easily design skeletal structures that are more functional than those currently found in the forelimbs of such diverse mammals as horses, whales, and bats. That the actual forelimbs of these mammals do not seem to be optimally arranged is because",
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"question": "Which of the following pieces of evidence most strongly supports the common origin of all life on Earth?",
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"question": "Organisms in which of the following phyla have a true coelom?",
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"question": "A certain autosomal recessive trait is expressed in 1% of a population. Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what percent of the population are carriers but do not express the trait?",
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"question": "Which of the following properties is responsible for holding together the water molecules in a vertical column of water in xylem vessels of a plant?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements is NOT correct about apoptosis?",
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"question": "All of the following organs in the digestive system secrete digestive enzymes EXCEPT the",
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"question": "All of the following are stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system EXCEPT",
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"question": "In the inherited disorder called Pompe disease, glycogen breakdown in the cytosol occurs normally and blood glucose levels are normal, yet glycogen accumulates in lysosomes. This suggests a malfunction with",
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"question": "A trend toward the decrease in the size of plants on the slopes of mountains as altitudes increase is an example of",
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"question": "Which of the following is an example of a cline?",
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"question": "A healthy man and woman are worried about having children because they are both carriers of sickle-cell disease. If the couple have a biological child, what is the chance that the child will inherit sickle-cell disease?",
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"question": "Females with Turner's syndrome have a high incidence of hemophilia, a recessive, X-linked trait. Based on this information, it can be inferred that females with this condition",
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"question": "Which of the following is the direct energy source that allows ATP synthase to produce ATP in mitochondria?",
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"question": "Which of the following cells is most closely associated with phagocytosis?",
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"question": "Lampreys attach to the skin of lake trout and absorb nutrients from its body. This relationship is an example of",
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"question": "Which of the following is correct about organisms that are the first to colonize a habitat undergoing ecological succession?",
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"question": "Unlike large populations, small populations are vulnerable to various processes that draw populations down an extinction vortex toward smaller and smaller populations until no individuals survive. Which of the following statements correctly identifies the factors that endanger a population?",
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"question": "Fossil evidence indicates that horses have gradually increased in size over geologic time. Which of the following terms best describes this?",
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"question": "Which describes an African butterfly species that exists in two strikingly different color patterns?",
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"question": "Regarding meiosis and mitosis, one difference between the two forms of cellular reproduction is that in meiosis",
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"question": "Oligomycin is an antibiotic that blocks proton channels in the cristae of mitochondria by binding to ATP synthase. Which of the following would be the first expected response after the application of oligomycin to cells?",
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"question": "If neutral variation is truly \"neutral,\" then it should have no effect on",
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"question": "Which of the following characteristics would allow you to distinguish a prokaryotic cell from an animal cell?",
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"question": "This process leads to the net production of two pyruvate, two ATP, and two NADH.",
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"question": "When oxygen becomes unavailable, this process regenerates NAD+, allowing respiration to continue.",
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"question": "Before the human genome was sequenced by the Human Genome Project, scientists expected that they would find about 100,000 genes. In fact, they discovered that humans have only about 24,000 genes. How can we exhibit so many different traits from so few genes?",
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"question": "Which of the following must exist in a population before natural selection can act upon that population?",
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"question": "You observe a species that gives birth to only one offspring at a time and has a relatively long life-span for its body size. Which of the following is probably also true of this organism?",
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"question": "A piece of potato is dropped into a beaker of pure water. Which of the following describes the initial condition when the potato enters the water?",
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"question": "In most ecosystems, net primary productivity is important because it represents the",
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"question": "During a study session about evolution, one of your fellow students remarks, \"The giraffe stretched its neck while reaching for higher leaves; its offspring inherited longer necks as a result.\" Which statement is most likely to be helpful in correcting this student's misconception?",
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"question": "Incomplete dominance and epistasis are two terms that define genetic relationships. Which of the following statements best describes the differences or similarities between the two terms?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about the DNA in one of your liver cells is correct?",
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"question": "Energy is harvested during cellular respiration in stages. Which of the following correctly states which phase of cellular respiration harvests the most energy and the correct explanation why?",
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"question": "Which of the following best explains why drinking breast milk is beneficial to a human infant?",
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"question": "During oxidative phosphorylation, the energy needed to drive ATP synthesis comes from one source. Which of the following statements states the immediate source of that energy?",
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"question": "If a couple has had three sons and the woman is pregnant with their fourth child, what is the probability that child 4 will also be male?",
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"question": "Which of the following is an incorrect statement about gel electrophoresis?",
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"question": "Which of the following observations helped Darwin shape his concept of descent with modification?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about post-transcriptional modification are incorrect?",
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"question": "Photosynthesis requires",
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"question": "The first simple cells evolved approximately 3.5 billion years ago, followed by the more complex eukaryotic cells 2.1 billion years ago. Which of the following statements is correct?",
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"question": "The sequence of amino acids in hemoglobin molecules of humans is more similar to the hemoglobin of chimpanzees than it is to the hemoglobin of dogs. This similarity suggests that",
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"question": "Basepair sequence that signals the start site for gene transcription.",
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"question": "Those being hunted adopt a coloring scheme that allows them to blend in to the colors of the environment.",
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"question": "A baby duck runs for cover when a large object is tossed over its head. After this object is repeatedly passed overhead, the duck learns there is no danger and stops running for cover when the same object appears again. This is an example of",
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"question": "Stretching out from the equator is a wide belt of tropical rain forests that are being cut down to provide exotic woods for export to the U.S. and to make land available to graze beef cattle. Which of the following statements is a negative consequence of clear-cutting the tropical rain forests?",
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"question": "The theory of evolution is most accurately described as",
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"question": "Which of the following statements explains how a point mutation can have no negative impact in the protein formed from a sequence in DNA?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements correctly characterizes an autoimmune disease?",
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"question": "All of the following play an important role in regulating respiration in humans EXCEPT",
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"question": "Water and minerals that reach the xylem in the center of a plant root must first",
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"question": "A lizard lacking a chemical defense mechanism that is colored in the same way as a lizard that has a defense mechanism is displaying",
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"question": "Logically, which of these should cast the most doubt on the relationships depicted by an evolutionary tree?",
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"question": "Sexual dimorphism is most often a result of",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about meiosis is correct?",
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"question": "Stomata allow gases, such as H2O and CO2, to exchange between the inside of a plant leaf and the surrounding environment. Which of the following occurs under normal daytime environmental conditions?",
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"question": "Which of these makes determining the evolutionary relatedness of different species based on the amino acid sequence of homologous proteins generally less accurate than determinations of relatedness based on the nucleotide sequences of homologous genes?",
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"question": "An animal that is harmless copies the appearance of an animal that is dangerous as a defense mechanism to make predators think twice about attacking.",
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"question": "The pH of two lakes is measured. Lake A has a pH of 8.0; Lake B has a pH of 6.0. Which of the following statements is correct about these lakes?",
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"question": "A plant grows in the opposite direction of the gravitational force. This is an example of",
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"question": "Which of the following is known to be involved in the photoperiodic flowering response of angiosperms?",
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"question": "In plants, the tendency of climbing vines to twine their tendrils around a trellis is called",
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"question": "Which of the following is not an observation or inference on which natural selection is based?",
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"question": "Microtubules are protein filaments assembled from tubulin protein subunits. The chemical colchicine prevents the assembly of microtubules by binding to tubulin protein subunits. Which of the following cellular processes would be most impaired by the application of colchicine?",
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"question": "The principle inorganic compound found in living things is",
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"question": "Which of the following statements is an inference of natural selection?",
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"question": "Recently, seasonal dead zones in low-oxygen waters have been occurring annually in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The dead zones result from the rapid growth of photosynthetic phytoplankton (algal blooms) and their subsequent decay by oxygen-depleting microbes in the water column. Which of the following factors most likely triggers the algal blooms and the associated dead zones?",
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"question": "Which of the following best summarizes the process of allopatric speciation?",
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"question": "In a hypothetical population's gene pool, an autosomal gene, which had previously been fixed, undergoes a mutation that introduces a new allele, one inherited according to incomplete dominance. Natural selection then causes stabilizing selection at this locus. Consequently, what should happen over the course of many generations?",
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"question": "Which of the following is the correct characteristic of arteries?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about trypsin is NOT true?",
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"question": "Transcription-affecting DNA region that may be located thousands of basepairs away from the promoter.",
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"question": "Which of the following are traits that are affected by more than one gene?",
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"question": "A student conducts an experiment to test the efficiency of a certain enzyme. Which of the following protocols would probably not result in a change in the enzyme’s efficiency?",
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"question": "Kangaroo rats are better able to concentrate urine than humans are. It would be expected that, compared to the nephrons of human kidneys, the nephrons of kangaroo-rat kidneys would have",
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"question": "The geneticist Mary Lyon hypothesized the existence of structures visible just under the nuclear membrane in mammals, which were later named Barr bodies. Which of the following statement is NOT correct about Barr bodies?",
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"question": "An animal cell that is permeable to water but not salts has an internal NaCl concentration of 10%. If placed in freshwater the cell will",
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"question": "Chemiosmosis occurs in I.Mitochondria II. Nuclei III. Chloroplasts",
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"question": "All of the following are examples of events that can prevent interspecific breeding EXCEPT",
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"question": "The relatives of a group of pelicans from the same species that separated from each other because of an unsuccessful migration are reunited 150 years later and find that they are unable to produce offspring. This is an example of",
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"question": "If two modern organisms are distantly related in an evolutionary sense, then one should expect that",
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"question": "When water evaporates from the surface of a pond, what happens to the remaining liquid water?",
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"question": "Members of which of the following groups are most likely to be surrounded by a protein coat?",
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"question": "Villi and microvilli are present in the small intestine and aid in reabsorption by",
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"question": "The transfer of DNA between two bacterial cells connected by sex pili is known as",
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"question": "More than a dozen species of Darwin's finches with various specialized adaptations inhabit the Galápagos Islands. Each species possesses a specialized adaptation for obtaining food. Why is it that similar adaptations do not exist among the finches of the South American mainland, the presumed origin of the Galápagos finch ancestor?",
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"question": "Which of the events described below agrees with the idea of catastrophism?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements correctly describes what happens to the preRNA during RNA processing?",
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"question": "A small population of birds is blown to an isolated island by a hurricane and establishes a colony. The gene pool of the newly established population of birds is likely to reflect the effects of which of the following?",
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"question": "Nymphaea odorata, a water lily, is an aquatic plant whose leaves and flowers float on the surface of the water. Which of the following characteristics would be expected for leaves of this plant?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements is not correct about lipids?",
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"question": "Heterozygote advantage should be most closely linked to which of the following?",
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"question": "African lungfish often live in small, stagnant, freshwater pools. With reduced gills, they differ from other fish in that they breathe air. They also differ in that they release the nitrogen waste urea instead of ammonia. Which of the following statements correctly explains how this is an advantage for lungfish?",
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"question": "Which of the following statements about the immune system is NOT correct?",
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"question": "Which of the following is most correct concerning cell differentiation in vertebrates?",
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"question": "All of the following support the endosymbiotic theory that ancestors of mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent, free-living prokaryotes EXCEPT:",
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"question": "The frequency of a particular allele in a population of 1,000 birds in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is 0.3. If the population remains in equilibrium, what would be the expected frequency of that allele after 500 years?",
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"question": "Which of the following best accounts for the ability of legumes to grow well in nitrogen-poor soils?",
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"question": "To ensure that hatchling sea turtles orient to the sea rather than inland, which of the following is the most environmentally sound practice around sea turtle nest sites?",
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"question": "In general, animal cells differ from plant cells in that animal cells have",
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"question": "Which of the following disorders will most likely result from X chromosome aneuploidy in women?",
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"question": "Which statement about the beak size of finches on the island of Daphne Major during prolonged drought is true?",
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"question": "The normal pH of the cytosol is about 7.2. Most enzymes in the lysosome, however, are only active at a pH of 5. This suggests that",
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"question": "A feature of amino acids NOT found in carbohydrates is the presence of",
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"question": "A researcher grows a population of ferns in her laboratory. She notices, after a few generations, a new variant that has a distinct phenotype. When she tries to breed the original phenotype with the new one, no offspring are produced. When she breeds the new variants, however, offspring that look like the new variant result. What kind of speciation does this example illustrate?",
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"question": "Natural selection is based on all of the following except",
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"question": "In chick embryos, the extraembryonic membrane that provides nourishment to the fetus is the",
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"question": "A certain species of land snail exists as either a cream color or a solid brown color. Intermediate individuals are relatively rare. Which of the following terms best describes this?",
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"question": "Once a plasmid has incorporated specific genes, such as the gene coding for the antibiotic ampicillin, into its genome, the plasmid may be cloned by",
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"question": "Which of the following pairs of scientists pioneered the ecological discipline known as island biogeography?",
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"question": "The acrosome and cortical reactions that occur immediately after fertilization ensure which of the following?",
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"question": "snRNPs are most closely associated with which of the following?",
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"question": "Transpiration is a result of special properties of water. The special properties of water include all of the following EXCEPT",
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"question": "Which of the following statements best explains why Mendel's principle of segregation was deemed a law?",
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"question": "Protein that prevents the binding of RNA polymerase to the promoter site.",
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"question": "Which of these is the smallest unit that natural selection can change?",
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"question": "Which of these is the smallest unit upon which natural selection directly acts?",
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"question": "A chemical agent is found to denature all enzymes in the synaptic cleft. What effect will this agent have on acetylcholine?",
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"question": "The reaction A + B → C is catalyzed by enzyme K. If the reaction is in equilibrium, which of the following would allow more product C to be produced?",
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"question": "A new plant was discovered and determined to have an unusually low number of stomata on the undersides of its leaves. For what environment would this plant most likely be best adapted?",
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"question": "Which of the following adaptive features would least likely be found in an animal living in a hot arid environment?",
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"question": "Certain populations of finches have long been isolated on the Galapagos Islands off the western coast of South America. Compared with the larger stock population of mainland finches, these separate populations exhibit far greater variation over a wider range of species. The variation among these numerous finch species is the result of",
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"question": "Memory loss would most likely be due to a malfunction of which part of the brain?",
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"question": "The major difference between cartilage and bone is that cartilage",
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"question": "Viral transduction is the process by which viruses carry bacterial DNA from one bacterial cell to another. In what way does this process play a role in bacterial evolution?",
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"question": "Cattle breeders have improved the quality of meat over the years by which process?",
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"question": "The fluidity of the plasma membrane can vary in response to temperature changes. For bacteria and yeast cells, which of the following would be a viable strategy to maintain homeostasis of the plasma membrane in a temperature-varying environment?",
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"question": "You are told that in a population of guinea pigs, 4 percent are black (recessive) and 96 percent are brown. Which of the following is the frequency of the heterozygous condition?",
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"question": "Of the following anatomical structures, which is homologous to the wing of a bird?",
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"question": "Darwin's mechanism of natural selection required long time spans in order to modify species. From whom did Darwin get the concept of Earth's ancient age?",
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"question": "A researcher is experimenting with nerve transmission using neurons from a giant squid. At the beginning of the experiment, the axon is at rest and has a threshold measured at –70 mV at 37oC. The axon receives one stimulus that triggers one action potential in the axon. Subsequent stimuli are much stronger. Which of the following statements explains what happens when several strong stimuli are experienced by the axon?",
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"question": "Refer to question 15 for details on the squirrel population. Which of the following conditions is required to keep this population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?",
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"question": "The structure of ATP synthase in the plasma membranes of bacteria is nearly identical to that in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotic cells. This similarity best supports which of the following hypotheses?",
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