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1. An acorn is planted in a pot containing 5 kg of dry soil andthen placed outdoors. After ten years, the small tree now growingin the pot is removed, including all of its roots. The tree had amass of 30 kg (dry weight). What is the estimated dry weight of […]

Albinism is a recessive trait characterized by the total orpartial lack of the pigment melanin in the eyes and skin. Twopeople who are heterozygous for an albinism allele marry and plan to have five children. i) What is the probability that all five children arealbino? ii) What is the probability […]

Q1. The general public does not always use the terms ‘hypothesis’ and ‘theory’ in the similar manner that biologists do. Find out an example of how the terms are used by the public and explain how it differs from a biologist’s approach. Q2. 1: How does carson categorize modern insecticides? […]

Suppose that the each replication fork moves at a rate of 500 base pairs per second, how long would it take to replicate the E. coli chromosome (with 4.6 million base pairs) from a single origin of replication? Which three of the following memebers of the sponge community are most […]