Q1. What do you suggest to Pinchot as a sustainable level of fragmentation that conserves the forests biodiversity and ecosystem services while still allowing for some development? How might conserving Pinchots forest reserve protect town from economic, health and safety threats posed by fragmentation? Q2. Based on the results of […]

The global community is plagued by increasing incidence of lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast and pancreatic cancers, prostate cancer, leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, liver, ovarian and esophageal cancers. Other types of cancer exist but are less frequent. What is the scientific community doing to attempt to eliminate the most common forms […]

When calculating the concentration of bacteria in a liquid culture, you should plate multiple dilutions of your culture then count the colonies that develop on only one of those plates.  The plate that you count should contain between 30 and 300 colonies.  Should you avoid using plates with fewer than […]

Imagine you do a test cross between a purple-flowered pea plant having serrated leaves (a dominant trait) and a white-flowered pea plant having smooth edges. If the purple-flowered plant is heterozygous for both traits, the expected ratio in the offspring is 1 purple-serrated: 1 purple-smooth:1 white-serrated:1 white-smooth. Instead, you see […]