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What is the sugar that gets fermented on a MacConkey plate?

What is the common name for Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis? What does the variety name ‘inermis’ mean or refer to?  

List at least one ID feature you can use to distinguish Pelargonium x hortorum (zonal geranium) and Pelargonium peltatum (ivy geranium).

Which of the followings are true about plants in the family of Euphorbiaceae? milky sap very small flowers have colorful petal-like bracts (modified leaves) borne beneath the true flowers.

Ipomoea lobata produces one-sided racemes of tubular flowers that initially are red in color but turn orange, yellow, then cream as they age.

Jacobaea maritima (Senecio cineraria,Dusty Miller) is a popular foliage plant grown for its cool, silvery, woolly-felted leaves. However, the silver leaves (hairy leaves) are susceptible to leaf rot in the South due to high humidity.

Chilopsis linearis (Desert Willow) has willowlike leaves and showy flowers.

What is the average functionality (favg) in the above system? Your answer should match the following format: X.X (where X is a number between 0 and 9).

Due to social distancing in the past week, Dr. Sumerlin finally got to chase one of his childhood dreams: making polysulfones in his garage. He reacted hydroquinone in the presence of a base with various bis-phenylsulfones and found that some would polymerize much faster than others.  Rank the following bis-phenylsulfones according to their expected reaction rate with hydroquinone, starting with the fastest.

The polymerization of the monomer shown below yields a very important commercial polymer. The success of this process relies on the rate differences of steps A vs. B and C vs. D.  Indicate which steps are faster.