Write the dual purpose served by Deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates in the polymerisation.
Deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (DTPs) purpose:
(i) DTPs serves as substrates i.e. nucleotides during replication.
(ii) DTPs supply energy for polymerisation reaction by breaking of high energy terminal phosphates bond.
Write the names of the following :
(a) A 15 mya primate that was ape-like
(b) A 2 mya primate that lives in East African grasslands
How did a citizen group called Friends of Arcata Marsh, Arcata, California, USA, help to improve water quality of the marshland using Integrated Waste Water Treatment ? Explain in four steps.
Your advice is sought to improve the nitrogen content of the soil to use for cultivation of a non-leguminous terrestrial crop.
(a) Recommend two microbes that can enrich the soil with nitrogen.
(b) Why do leguminous crops not require such enrichment of the soil?
You have obtained a high yielding variety of tomato. Name and explain the procedure that ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.