How/why is regulation, reproduction, respiration and growth essential for life?

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?

Awire-hair terrier and a smooth-hair terrier are mated. the offspring produced are 6 wire-hair puppies and 2 smooth-hair puppies. a. what pattern of inheritance best describes this situation? b. what is the genotype(s) of the wire-haired puppies? of the smooth-haired puppies? c. what would be the expected genotype and phenotype ratios of a mating between 2 wire-haired terriers that are heterozygous?

How are proteins and nucleic acids related? they both provide energy. they both carry genetic information. the structure of proteins is determined by nucleic acids. the subunits of nucleic acids are also the subunits of proteins.