For each of the following: What would you expect to be the most important evolutionary force acting between this generation and the next affecting the genetic composition of the populations (for these scenarios for a specific locus, we are concerned only with that locus and/or phenotype)? a) A population of […]

This week we shifted our focus to our eukaryotic “cousins”, the plants. With that in mind, the discussion topic is designed to provoke some critical analysis of both systems. Pick one of the following topics and compare at least two major similarities and two differences between vascular plants and humans. […]

These essays will be run through turnitin.com by me upon completion. Essays should be 12 point font, no more than 1 inch margins and anywhere between 3-5 pages in length of your writing (not including references or figures). These essays should be double-spaced. Again it is not quantity but quality. […]

Q1. If muscles biopsies were taken from the legs of a world-class marathon runner and a typical couch potato, which would you expect to have a higher density of mitochondria? Why? What about the muscle biopsy from the biceps of a weight lifter. Q2. What is the dissimilarity between germline […]