Case Study – The Drummer with Tingling Fingers Aaron, a 26-year-old musician, visits his physician complaining of tingling in the fingers of his right hand. The feeling is present when he plays his drums as well as at other times of the day and night. Sometimes the tingling is so […]

In previous years the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Port Security Grant Program provided funding to reduce the risks of an a terrorist attack upon maritime critical infrastructure resources before an attack (Taquechel, 2013, p. 522). However, most recently this funding trend has shifted towards resilience i.e. recovery based risk approach. […]

If these three genes were all assorting independently, how many genotypic and phenotypic classes would result in the offspring, and in what proportion, assuming simple dominance and recessiveness in each gene pair?   8, 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1   2, 1:1   6, 1:1:1:1:1:1   4, 1:1:1:1 What can you conclude from the actual data […]

Imagine that you have been studying the population biology of ground squirrels on the UCSC campus for a number of years and have obtained the following information. A sample of 75 females in 2012 had the age structure shown in column 2 below. Additional longer-term studies of cohort survival and […]