5. Why are people concerned with the pollution of groundwater
resources?
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Keeping in mind the life cycle of bacteriophages, consider the following problem: during the reproductive cycle of a temperate bacteriophage, the viral dna inserts into the bacterial chromosome where the resultant prophage behaves much like a trojan horse. it can remain quiescent, or it can become lytic and initiate a burst of progeny viruses. several operons maintain the prophage state by interacting with a repressor that keeps the lytic cycle in check. insults (ultraviolet light, for example) to the bacterial cell lead to a partial breakdown of the repressor, which in turn causes the production of enzymes involved in the lytic cycle. as stated in this simple form, would you consider this system of regulation to be operating under positive or negative control?

Asolution of an enzyme and a substrate was placed in a water bath and the temperature of the reaction was raised gradually. the graph shown was plotted at the end of the experiment. what can be concluded from the graph? a) temperature has no effect on the activity of the enzyme. b) the effect of temperature on the enzyme is unpredictable. c) the enzyme shows increased activity up to a certain temperature. d) the activity of the enzyme is inversely proportional to the temperature.

Photosynthesis uses co2 and cellular respiration produces co2. we call the point when the two processes are in balance--when there is no net production of co2--the compensation point. how might you limit one of the processes in order to achieve a compensation point?