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In most fungi, which is the dominant ploidy in alternation of generations?

A diploid megaspore mother cell divides by meiosis to produce __ daughter cells, only one of which then divides by ______ to produce eight daughter nuclei, only one of which is the angiosperm egg.

Blood is categorized as white type of tissue?

While snorkeling or skin diving, a student observes an active marine animal that has a series of muscular tentacles bearing suckers associated with its head. A pair of large, well-developed eyes are evident. The student is observing an animal belonging to the class:

The relationship between the fungus and the plant in the case of micorrhizae is…

What part of the brain is known as the gateway to the cerebrum because all neural pathways from the brain stem and the spinal cord must synapse first in this structure and then another neuron will route these signals to the cerebral cortex?

Carbon 14 degrades to form nitrogen and has a half life of 5730 years. As a single millenium (1000 years) passes, in a bone (which contains carbon isotopes in the proportions normally found on Earth), what should happen to the amount of Carbon 14 relative to the amount of Nitrogen over that time?

During the depolarization event in a neuron or a muscle, the first ion to move down its concentration gradient (to diffuse) is _________.

An ancient archaic cell engulfed a cyanobacterium and allowed it to form a mutualistic relationship, because the cyanobacterium produced sugars that were usable by the archaic cell. The descendants of this archaic cell also inherited the cyanobacterial descendants of that first mutualistic cell, and thus were the first chloroplasts generated. This story describes a history of evolution which characterizes the ….

Which of these determines it’s embryonic cell’s fates the earliest during development?