Question 1: Research 5-8 species within one Family of birds. Be sure to use primary or very good secondary literature for your information. Give a brief description of each species based upon the characteristics below. Construct a table(s) or cladogram(s) showing the similarity of those species in regard to the […]

Describe how you would identify E. coli mutants that cannot utilize galactose as a carbon (energy) source. You are given a test tube containing E. coli grown under full nutrition, a spreader, filter paper, Petri plates with agar gel containing various nutrients, and an incubator. There are two kinds of […]

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 […]