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What are some of the genetic mechanisms that can contribute to and lead to speciation?

First and foremost when dealing with a question like this we need to define and understand the key concept involved, and in this instanct it is speciation: the divergence of two distinct lineages from one pr...
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Frequent treatment with antibiotics can result in resistant strains of bacteria, explain how.

A mutation can occur, causing the formation of an antibiotic resistant gene within a bacteria. This bacteria will then survive the course of antibiotics and reproduce, passing on the gene by vertical gene tr...
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Explain how smooth muscle in the arterioles can reduce blood flow.

The smooth muscle contracts, causing vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the vessel lumen.
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Give 3 differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

Oxygen is used in aerobic respiration. More energy is generated in aerobic respiration. Carbon dioxide and water are products of aerobic respiration, whereas lactic acid is the end product of anaerobic respi...
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What is the process by which plants and algae remove carbon from the atmosphere?

Photosynthesis. This question may throw some students off because: 1: They may be used to the question phased as something like 'By what process do plants generate glucose' 2: They may not be aware that alga...
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