A young woman distance runner has recently not been performing well and has complained of feeling lethargic and sluggish. You perform a graded exercise test to VO2max including blood samples to attempt to determine possible cause. a. VO2max is significantly lower than measured last year. b. R value never reached […]

Q1. An ecologist studying desert plants performed the next experiment. She staked out two identical plots that included a few sagebrush plants and numerous small annual wildflowers. She found the same five wildflower species in similar numbers in both plots. Then she enclosed one of the plots with a fence […]

A 60 year old female was admitted to the hospital for an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. The patient did welll intraoperatively and was recovering nicely for the first five days post-operation. On the sixth day, she had five bouts of diarrhea and blood was noted on the most recent bout. […]

1. Two students are doing a poster on the Amazon Water Lily (Nymphaea amazonum) for a class project and have compiled research to determine if it is in actuality a land plant or an algae. The amazon lily only grows and reproduces in the summertime through a symbiotic relationship between […]