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In March of 2020, a student goes into the lab and sets up the two reactions below.  The first one turns cloudy after about 15 minutes.  The other remains clear.  The student decides to leave the reactions and go home for the day.  Then, when everything is shut down due to COVID, she cannot go back into the lab for two months.  When she finally returns both reactions are cloudy.  Explain what happened.  

Prokaryotes have no nucleus and have membrane-bound organelles.

Bacteriophages are bacteria that prey on viruses.

Viruses can’t move independently.

Based on the results from the coacervate lab, these protobionts formed abiotically are similar to living cells in that:

The following image shows a bacteriophage injecting DNA into a host bacteria.

Choose all correct descriptions for the following molecule.   

In a vaccine there are no pathogenic agents that are dangerous which enables our body kill them.

In the Coacervate lab, gelatin was a simple carbohydrate while the arabic gum was a protein that was used to model these protobiont structures.

If a bacteriophage goes into the lytic cycle, it can also go into the lysogenic cycle.