A scientist is testing how caffeine affects people’s sleep. She asks one group of people to drink one can of Coke before bed. She asks a second group of people to drink one cup of water before bed. Over a period of one month, she determines that the Coca Cola drinkers slept 45 minutes less per night than the water drinkers. What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?

During which phase does earth see more than half of the moon's surface? 1)first quarter2)third quarter3)waxing gibbous4)waning crescent

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?

Mrna decodes information from the original dna master plan to build proteins in the during the process of ribosomes.