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Does donating blood lower cholesterol levels? 50 volunteers have a cholesterol test, then donate blood, and then have another cholesterol test. Which aspect of experimental design is present? 

The membrane protein (enzyme) that transforms ADP + P to  ATP as H+ flows down a gradient from the intermembrane space into the matrix is:

In a covalent bond: 

A spherical shaped bacterial cell is considered:

A headline in the New York Times announced “Research shows running can alter one’s moods”. The article reported that researchers gave a Personality Assessment Test to 231 males who run at least 20 miles a week, and found “statistically significant personality differences between the runners and the male population as a whole.” Do you think the headline was appropriate? Explain. 

Among a dozen eggs, three are rotten. A cookie recipe calls for two eggs; they’ll be selected randomly from that dozen. Which simulation plan could be used to estimate the number of rotten eggs that might be chosen?  I. Let 0, 1, and 2 represent the rotten eggs, and 3, 4, …, 11 the good eggs. Generate two random numbers 0-11, ignoring repeats.II. Randomly generate a 0, 1, or 2 to represent the number of rotten eggs you get.III. Since 25% of the eggs are rotten, let 0 = rotten and 1, 2, 3 = good. Generate two random numbers 0-3 and see how may 0’s you get. 

Mendel’s monohybrid cross of “Tt” parents resulted in a tall to short ratio of:

The twisted ladder of DNA is composed of building blocks called:

The major enzyme that ‘fixes’ carbon dioxide in the Calvin cycle is called 

A human somatic cell (For example a pancreatic cell) contains ___ chromosomes.