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Q1. Imagine you are on the team designing a self-contained and self-sustaining base that can exist on the moon. Once supplied with building materials, equipment, and organisms from Earth, base will be expected to function indefinitely. One of leading team members has suggested that everything sent to the base be […]

In Drosophila, allelic series of gene w+ determine the color of an eye. w+ determines red color (wild type), we determines eosin color and wa – apricot color. The allelic realtions are w+ > we > wa > w. A fly with eosin eyes was crossed with a fly with […]

A researcher times rats in running a maze and finds that the average time for all of the rats to complete the maze is 34 seconds. She then breeds only those rats that ran the maze in 25 seconds or less and finds that the rats in generation two complete […]

Members of two different species possess a similar looking structure that they use in a similar fashion to perform the same function. Which information would best help distinguish between an explanation based on homology versus one based on convergent evolution? A) The two species live at great distance from each […]