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When people become sick with malaria they develop severe fever that causes them to be bed bound, weak and sweaty for several days. Provide an evolutionary explanation for this phenomenon along with an experimental design that would test your idea. Do you think that mosquitoes should evolve immunity to being […]

1. In cats the development of ear length is sex linkedwith the dominant allele causing a long ear to develop. Therecessive allele causes a short ear to develop. If a male catwith long ears is crossed with a female cat that is heterozygous for ear alleles, then what would be […]

Describe the journey of a hypothetical enveloped (-) RNA virus through three basic host barriers to infection: Physical b arriers, Innate immune response and adaptive immune response. After overcoming physical barriers, how are viruses recognized at each step, what cells are involved, what soluble factors are involved, which adaptive immune […]

1. In each of the following types of growth, how is the rate of growth (dN/dt) influenced by the population size (N)?Linear:Exponential:Logistic: 2. Note the following data concerning two species of paramecia. The abiotic factors (growth medium, temperature, etc) are identical in all flasks. Is there evidence of competition between […]