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Dangerously Thin: A Case Study on the Genetic Code At 65 years old, Henry Blake was in excellent health and enjoying his first year of retirement. Upon returning from his dream trip to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, he noticed that his left leg was swollen just inferior to […]

A woman, age 36, had suffered from anorexia nervosa for 10 years and was admitted to the hospital for treatment. Her weight was about 60% of the ideal for her height (5 feet, 5 inches, 72.6 lbs). She was fed by gavage (nasogastric feeding) with 3L/day of a nutrient solution […]

1. E coli is a shortened name for a bacterium that lives in our gut. According to the rules of binomial nomenclature it is properly written as ________. a. Escherichia COLIb. Escherichia Colic. Escherichia colid. escherichia colie. escherichia coli 2. What does the term “biodiversity” refer to in the field […]

In a lab, you are supposed to observe and record the 4 different kinds of corn kernel phenotypes. The phenotypes are purple smooth, purple wrinkle, yellow smooth, and yellow wrinkled. The results for the observed number was 196 of purple smooth, 62 of purple wrinkle, 92 of yellow smooth, and […]