1. What is taxonomy? 2. Look at plants and animals. Select a plant and an animal and see how it evolved up the Tree of Life from the beginning of time to the present. 3. How did this species change over time? How did it start out and how did […]

1) Discuss the concepts of homologous chromosome – diploid and haploid. What characteristies are shared between two homologous chromosomes? 2) If two chromosomes of a species are the same length and have a similar centromere placement but are not homologous, what is different about them? 3) Contrast the genetic content […]

1) What is the general purpose of photosynthesis? 2) describe the anatomy of a chloroplast and where they are found. 3)What are the sources of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in the photosynthetic reaction? 4)What is sunlight? 5)How is sunlight converted to chemical energy? 1)describe how chlorophyll captures light energy? 2)what […]

How many different 6-mer sequences of DNA are there? (Hint: There are 16 possible dinucleotides and 64 possible trinucleotides). We can quantify the information-carrying capacity of nucleic acids in the following way. Each position can be one of four bases, corresponding to two bits of information (22 = 4). Thus, […]