Assignment: Natural Selection ANSWER SHEET Presimulation Question Q1. Describe the process of natural selection in your own words. You can answer this either as a paragraph or in a list format. Include all the necessary components and how these relate to each other, leading to change over time. How species […]

With these anatomical features in mind, do research to find an angiosperm species that has structural modifications to leaves, stems, roots, or flowers that result in adaptive functions. For example, a California Barrel Cactus has spines in place of leaves to reduce water loss. Discuss the following in your answer: […]

Q. A student designs an experiment to create an alcohol known as butanol. She mixes a species of Clostridium bacteria known to produce this alcohol as a by-product of its metabolism with a broth of water and glucose in excess, and incubates the mixture in constant darkness without any oxygen. […]

Q. Once you isolate the cDNA for the receptor involved in mediating heart contraction, you sub-clone receptor cDNA into an expression plasmids and then stably transfect COS cells and choose the receptor-expressing COS-45 cell line. Using your receptor-expressing COS-45 cells, how could you demonstrate experimentally that the selective antagonist binds […]