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Why is Lamarck's evolutionary theory considered incorrect?

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Why is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway so active in erythrocytes?

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What is the actual storage form of energy in muscles? ATP or Glycogen?

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Recycling and storage of nitrogen from breakdown of macromolecules?

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Why does ATP contain ribose rather than deoxyribose?

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Is glycolysis the beginning part of fermentation, or does fermentation follow glycolysis?

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Why is FAD, rather than NAD+, reduced in the succinate dehydrogenase reaction of the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle?

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Why does Thiamine pyrophosphate have phosphates?

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Should there be separate Ramachandran plots for an amino acid in different contexts?

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How much nucleoside triphosphate is required to form one peptide bond during protein synthesis?

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Why do (almost) all energy carriers contain adenine?

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Why do retroviruses go through a DNA stage to replicate their RNA genome?

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Did early 20th century researchers state why they used E. coli as a model organism?

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Why do animals use glycogen for their polysaccharide storage whereas plants use starch?

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DNA or enzymes — which came first?

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Why is ATP the preferred choice for energy carriers?

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Is Chemiosmosis a hypothesis or a theory?

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Why does an Enzyme-Substrate Complex have slightly less energy than the substrate alone?

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How to look for different transcripts for a protein?

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Is the pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction considered part of the Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle?

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Is the formula of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) $\ce{C_{10}H_{11}N_{5}O_{6}P}$ or $\ce{C_{10}H_{12}N_{5}O_{6}P}$? Does it matter?

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How do I know if the claims of a scientific paper are generally accepted?

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How to generate pathway fingerprints of drugs?

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Why does Nature use a 4-level system to encode information in DNA?

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Why do Type II Restriction Endonucleases cleave at palindromic sequences?

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Comparative evolutionary study: is amino acid or nucleotide comparison more useful?

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How can RNAse degrade any RNA?

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Was iron important for the first life on Earth?

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Is studying chemical and physical properties of chemical substances that make up organisms really a task of molecular biology?

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Numbering of C atoms of pyrimidine rings in nucleosides

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