Photorespiration limits casualty products of light reactions
that build up in the absence of the Calvin cycle. In many plants,
photorespiration is a problem because on a hot, dry day it can drain as much as
50% of the carbon fixed by the Calvin cycle. The closing of stomata reduces access to CO2
and causes O2 to build up. These conditions favor a seemingly not useful process
called photorespiration. In most plants
(C3 plants), initial fixation of CO2, via rubisco, forms a three-carbon
compound. In photorespiration, rubisco
adds O2 instead of CO2 in the Calvin cycle. Photorespiration eats up O2 and
organic fuel and releases CO2 without producing ATP or sugar. Photorespiration
can evolve relic because rubisco first evolved at a time when the atmosphere
had far less O2 and more CO2.
Out of the following
given choices;
a. Valine instead of glutamic acid in the
sixth position
b. Glutamic
acid replacing valine in the first position
c. Extensive
amino acid substitutions
d. Trinucleotide
repeats
e. Frameshift substitutions
The answer is A. this is caused by a mutation in the beta
thalassemia genes on one of the 46 human chromosomes (chromosome #11) of the individual.
The alpha subunit is normal in people with sickle cell disease. When sickle
hemoglobin releases oxygen in the peripheral tissues, the molecules tend to
stick together and form long chains or polymers. These rigid polymers distort
the cell and cause it to bend out of shape from
the normative disc shape.
Answer:
4% of the white population in the US are carriers of cystic fibrosis.
Explanation:
According to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium equation, if q2 equals 1/2,500, then q equals .02, p equals .98, and 2pq equals approximately .04, or 4%.
Remember that the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium equation is <u>used when the population maintains its genetic variation constant</u>.
The scientist credited with being the first person to observe bacteria and call them as small animalcules is B. Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
Subduction is an act or instance of subduction; subtraction or withdrawal
