6 Flashcards

1
Q

Tetrodotoxin?

A

An extremely toxic substance

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2
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Tetrodotoxin does what physiologically?

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It blocks the Sodium ion-gated channel in neurons.

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3
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Best examples of coevolution arms race is?

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A super super linear correlation between toxicity in one organism and toxicity resistance in another.

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4
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!!!For each gene causing resistance in a host, there is a?

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5
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Flor’s gene for gene model?

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Plant resistance will occur only when a plant possesses a dominant resistance gene (R) when the pathogen expresses the complementary dominant avirulence gene (avr)

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6
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Plant resistance gene (R) are _____ rich.

A

Leucine

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7
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Lock (plant) should evolve to detect the key, key(disease), should?

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evolve to not be detected by the lock.

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8
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Batesian mimicry?

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Occurs when an edible mimic resembles an unpalatable or poisonous model. Only the mimic benefits

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In order for the mimicry to work, the model must be ____ in the wild?

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Dominant

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10
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Mullerian mimicry?

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When distasteful or poisonous organisms resemble each other to reduce cost of associative learning.

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