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  • Buffer solutions


  • Options
  • A. will always have a pH of 7
  • B. are rarely found in living systems
  • C. cause a decrease in pH when acids are added to them.
  • D. tend to maintain a relatively constant pH.

  • Correct Answer
  • tend to maintain a relatively constant pH. 


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    • 1. Which of the following characteristics are common in lymphocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils?

    • Options
    • A. They are all part of the nonspecific immune response in vertebrates
    • B. They are all part of the specific immune response in vertebrates
    • C. They are all part of the internal defenses of nonvertebrates
    • D. They are all types of white blood cells
    • Discuss
    • 2. The general expression for the appearance of a solute in an effluent is (where V is the elution volume of a substance , V0 void volume, kD distribution constant and Vi internal water volume)

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    • A. V = V0 + kDVi
    • B. V = V0/Vi
    • C. V = V0 - kDVi
    • D. V/V0 = kDVi
    • Discuss
    • 3. An expression vector

    • Options
    • A. always contains an origin of replication
    • B. usually contains a gene that confers antibiotic resistance to the bacterial host
    • C. always contains DNA segments for the regulation of mRNA production
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 4. The RNA polymerases that transcribe bacterial DNA are

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    • A. multisubunit enzymes
    • B. only active inside the cell
    • C. interchangable with DNA polymerases
    • D. highly glycosylated in their active forms
    • Discuss
    • 5. Lysozymes are found in

    • Options
    • A. plant cells
    • B. animal cells
    • C. microbial cells
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. Transcription of each set of rRNA genes by RNA polymerasel produces

    • Options
    • A. a single 45S rRNA precursor molecule
    • B. a single 5S rRNA precursor molecule
    • C. a single 18S rRNA precursor molecule
    • D. a single 28S rRNA precursor molecule
    • Discuss
    • 7. The rapid appearance of HIV-1 strains that are resistant to AIDS drugs is due in part to which of the following property of its reverse transcriptase?

    • Options
    • A. AZT (zidovudine) is too expensive to be taken in effective doses
    • B. The RNase H domain of p66 causes error prone synthesis
    • C. It lacks a proofreading exonuclease
    • D. It has low affinity for the correct dNTP's
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following is found on RNA but not DNA?

    • Options
    • A. Uracil
    • B. Deoxyribose
    • C. Phosphate
    • D. Adenine
    • Discuss
    • 9. Small charged molecules, often biogenic amines function as

    • Options
    • A. hormones
    • B. neurotransmitters
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. What useful information can be found from a Van Deemter plot?

    • Options
    • A. The selectivity factor
    • B. Optimum mobile phase flow rate
    • C. Optimum column temperature
    • D. Optimum column length
    • Discuss


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