A graduate student discovered an important gene regulating s…
A graduate student discovered an important gene regulating seed development in Arabidopsis. A couple of years later, he found two other alleles of the same gene. He decides to name the gene with the name of MSU, which of the following symbol will he use to describe the mutant phenotype?
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In the intestine of the adult dog, there are male and females worms that mate and sexually reproduce, resulting in the shedding of eggs in the feces. The infective eggs containing larvae (i.e., worms) are ingested by a mouse, which is a non-essential host, and in the mouse the worm neither develops nor reproduces but is infective for another dog. When a human ingests the infective egg containing the worm, the worm migrates to different parts of the body. However, because the worm doesn’t usually infect humans, it does not develop into an adult worm. In this scenario, the human will not be eaten by the adult dog (it’s very friendly!) Based on the above, answer the following question: The mouse is what type of host (select the best answer):
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