ON A TEST
Viral infections are difficult to treat medically because: (a) viruses do not respond to treatment with antibiotics (b) viruses have smaller ribosomes than the host cell (c) the symptoms of infection are always of short duration (d) viruses never elicit a response of antibody attack by the body's immune system

Which prevent errors in dna replication? a. helicase enzyme checks the dna for errors. b. each base can attach to only one other type of base. c. ribosome enzymes prevent errors from happening. d. dna contains no complementary base pairs.

To store strawberries in sugar syrup, lucy placed them in a jar and covered them with sugar but did not add any water. do you think syrup will be formed? justify. a. no. since water is not added, there cannot be any syrup formation. b. no. the higher concentration of sugar on the outside will cause the water from the sugar to diffuse in the strawberry cells causing them to swell without formation of any syrup. c. yes. the higher concentration of sugar on the outside will cause the water from the strawberry to diffuse out resulting in syrup formation. d. yes. the sugar will melt over time and form the syrup.

Which of these is not an example of molecular homology? 1. use of dna and rna as genetic material 2.use of glycolysis as the first step in cellular respiration in both plants and animals 3. the lack of an igf-1 gene in prokaryotes 4. the use of aldolase b to break down fructose in bacteria, plants and animals