What is the mass, in grams, of × 1021 silicon atoms?

A chemist carries out this reaction in the laboratory using 4.31 grams of zinc and an excess of sulfur:    Zn + S → ZnS From the balanced equation, she calculates that she should obtain 6.41 grams of zinc sulfide. However, she isolates only grams of product. What is her percent yield for this reaction?

What is the correct name for P4O10?  

What is the access modifier that allows a class or method to be accessed from anywhere in the same package, but not from outside the package?

Which method is automatically called when an object is created in Java, and it is responsible for initializing the object’s variables?

Match each of the the three horizontal/lateral gene transfer processes with its requirements.

Due to low vaccination rates, outbreaks of whooping cough caused by                                    continue to occur in various places in the United States.  Because infants, who cannot be vaccinated and for whom the disease can be fatal, most frequently contract the disease from their caregivers (eg., parents), caregivers are advised to update their own vaccination status.

Although most commonly found in the tropics (eg., Australia), this soil- and water-borne Gram-negative bacterium has recently been found in the soil and water of the Mississippi Gulf Coast when two cases of Whitmore’s disease were diagnosed in Mississipians who had no history of travel to endemic regions.  Although most people exposed to this bacterium do not develop disease, those who have diabetes or alcoholism are most likely to develop Whitmore’s disease, which is fatal in 20-50% of cases even with treatment.                        is the cause of Whitmore’s disease.

A DNA mutation that results in a stop codon appearing in a sequence is called a/an                  .

In addition to glycolysis, we learned about two (2) alternative pathways of glucose metabolism. a.  What are the names of these two (2) alternative pathways? (2 points) b.  Which pathway is used only by prokaryotes?  (1 point) c.  Why would a cell want to use either of these alternative pathways instead of using glycolysis?  (1 point)