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You are growing a culture of bacteria in your lab incubator. The temperature of the incubator is set at 37°C. During the night, the power goes out, and the incubator temperature drops to 25°C. What role do unsaturated fatty acids play in the bacterial membrane at lower temperatures?

​Which of the following compounds, resulting from a reaction between an alcohol and an aldehyde, contains a carbon that has a hydrogen and two —OR groups attached and resembles diethers?

Lithium ion (Li+) is widely used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Li+ blocks the re-synthesis of inositol trisphosphate, IP3, by depleting the cell of inositol. Which enzyme catalyzes the formation of IP3 from PIP2 in the PLC-PIP2 signaling pathway?

In the Decorator pattern, what is the main purpose?

The following late policy will be enforced for all assignments and quizzes (no late submissions will be available in this course for discussions, extra credit, dyadic interviews, any assignments within the orientation module or the final reflection paper): Any assignment or quiz submitted after the specified due date will automatically incur a 50% penalty, which will be deducted from the final score. For example, if an assignment is due November 9, at 11:59 pm and a student submits the assignment or quiz any time after the due date, lets say November 10, 2024, and earns 80% after the 50% penalty, the assignment’s final grade will result in a 40% grade earned. Any assignment example is provided below.  This penalty will be applied to the final score of the late submission. No feedback will be provided for any late assignments. No assignments or quizzes will be available for late submission within the last week of class.   Assignment Example (exclusions apply, see above)

Which of the following best describes how Design Patterns help in software development?

What is the main goal of the Singleton pattern?

What type of muscle is shown below?  

With pattern recognition, covariance matrix shrinking is a method to address the problem of ___________________________.

Bonus questions:  What percentage of the “teachers” in the Milgram experiment shocked their “learners” with 300 volts ? Which major theory does Durkheim’s deviance theories fall under?  What was the impetus behind both the Ashe and Milgram experiments?  (What happened to make them curious about human behavior regarding conformity and authority figures?)  Give an example of an agricultural society that existed 5000 years ago.  What is something you learned from the Lost on the Moon activity.