Your colleagues return from the South Pacific with data on island lizards. They found that there were more species of lizards on smaller islands than on larger islands. You can assume the islands have reached equilibrium with respect to species richness of lizards. Show (using both graphs and words) how […]

Q1. Take about 15 index cards and flashlight that is opaque on all sides (so that light shines only through the front) into a very dark room. After placing all 15 cards over beam of light, slowly eliminate the cards one at a time until you can barely detect the […]

Question: Assume you are a population geneticist, studying a particular disease which is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. In the population you are studying, the incidence of the disease is 3%. you need to determine answers to the following questions: calculate the frequency of the normal allele and the disease […]

Q1. Monarch butterfly populations are found east and west of Rocky Mountains. How can DNA fingerprinting technology be used to establish that they constitute one breeding population or two separate breeding populations? Q2. Consider what will happen to a cell if an H+ ionophore causes a partial dissipation of the […]