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How can bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and how can doctors reduce the number of bacteria that become resistant?

-A mutation in a pathogen may produce a new strain. This new strain may become resistant to an antibiotic through natural selection. The new strain ma...

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Answered by Helen C. Biology tutor
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Using the Hardy Weinberg principle, calculate the frequency of the heterozygous genotype in the population if the frequency of the dominant allele p is 0.864. Express your answer as a percentage of the population.

p+ 2pq + q= 1.0

p + q = 1.0

1.0 - p = q 

1.0 - 0.864 = 0.136

q = 0.136

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Explain the difference between spatial and temporal summation at a synapse.

-Spatial summation occurs when multiple presynaptic neurones together release enough neurotransmitter (e.g. acetylcholine) to exceed the threshold of the postsynaptic neurone. For exam...

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Answered by Helen C. Biology tutor
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What is viscosity?

Viscosity is a measure of a fluid's resistance to flow. It describes the internal friction of a moving fluid. A fluid with large viscosity resists motion because its molecular makeup give...

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Answered by Juan N. Physics tutor
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Differentiate between sense and antisense codons?

Sence codons are used for synthesizing mRNA and are generated as complementary strand during DNA semi-conservative replication while Antisense codons are the template used for DNA replication and can't...

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