1) Since calcium and magnesium salts of fatty acids are insoluble in water, how would you expect this to affect the usefulness of soap in hard water? 2) If you were to make soap (using 4 grams of lard, 2 mL of 7.8 M sodium hydroxide & boiling it) and […]

Addresses the following course goals and objectives: Use knowledge of biological principles to ask relevant questions about the natural world make observations and discriminate between scientific and pseudoscientific explanations a) Genetically modified food. What is the purpose of human-made genetic recombinations in food? Are foods that contain genes resulting from artificial […]

Question 1: Levels of steroid hormones (like testosterone and corticosterone) are related to the dynamics and outcome ofaggressive disputes in many animals. However, are steroid hormone levels thecause or the consequence of aggressive interactions? For example, do animals with high testosterone levels become dominant, or does dominance status resultin elevated […]

Biological Anthropology 1. The layer of gray matter that covers the surface of the brain is called the:a. olfactory bulb.b. cerebrum.c. cerebral cortex.d. cerebellum. 2. How can a forensic anthropologist tell if damage to a bone constitutes a premortem or perimortem injury?a. If there is no evidence of healing, then […]