Short Answer Questions: 1. a) A badger living in Oklahoma could hunt for either scorpions or ground squirrels (or both). Scorpions provide only 10 calories each, but require only 2 minutes to find, on average, with an additional 3 minutes to remove the stinger; ground squirrels offer 1000 calories, but […]

Q. Imagine that on the other side of the wall surrounding Mendel’s garden, he threw left-over seeds. Consider physiology of peas that he worked with 7 paired traits, that one generation of peas takes one year, and he over his experiments in 1865. a) How many different combinations of phenotypes […]

Which of the following identifies net production when 1 mol of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate is converted to 2 mol of lactate? Assume that re-oxidation of NADH via the electron transport chain yields the equivalent of 3 ATP, and that re-oxidation of FADH2 yields 2 ATP. a. 2 mol of ATP b. 4 […]

A particular x linked gene is a recessive lethal that causes death ad reabsorption of the embryo at an early stage. A heterozygous female married a man expressing the dominant trait. Define the alleles and show your work in answering the following questions: A. What proportion of their offspring would […]