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Question: “Ever since plants first moved onto land about 475 million years ago, they have been adapting to the problems of terrestrial life, particularly the problem of dehydration” (Reece et al., 2011). C4 plants and CAM plants have specific adaptations associated with carrying out photosynthesis that allow them to live […]

Use the following information for the next 2 questions. Pigeons have two alleles of a single gene that determines whether they have feathers on their lower legs. The alleles are called no grouse (associated with the featherless phenotype) and grouse (associated with feathery legs). Suppose a pigeon that is homozygous […]

Samiya wants to become a medical assistant. She is wondering why it is necessary to spend the time learning the roots, suffixes, and prefixes of medical terms when it is faster to simply memorize the actual medical terms. She has commented to you that she is studying to be a […]

Two indpendently assorted genes control the color and taste of blueberries. Expression of the dominant allele B results in blue color while expression of the recessive allele b results in white color. Similarly, expression of the dominant allele T results in tasty berries while expression of the recessive allele t […]