Assignment Your assignment is to listen to the RadioLab podcast entitled “The Primitive Streak” and report on the story below. The podcast is 30 minutes and can be played through the website below or streamed on any devise at your leisure. Link: http://www.radiolab.org/story/primitive-streak/ This is a writing assignment. To get […]

Human populations originally descended from Africa. From there, several expansions into new habitats and environments resulted in cultural and genetic adaptation. One of these adaptations involved the low-oxygen habitats that occur at high altitude. Residents of the Tibetan Plateau live above 4000m with oxygen concentrations that are nearly half of […]

Researchers recently investigated whether or not coffee prevented the development of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) in laboratory mice. The mice used in this experiment have a mutation that makes them become diabetic. Read about this research study in this article published on the Science Daily web-site New Evidence That Drinking […]

Q. Assume that pesticide resistance in beetles is a quantitative trait that can be measured as the number of days a beetle survives after exposure to the pesticide. The least resistant beetles die within one day, while the most resistant beetles can live for 12 days after exposure. a) Illustrate […]