Q. John Phillips, in 1860, used the idea of sedimentation to estimation the earth’s age. Based on the rate of sedimentation he observed occurring today, he assumed that around one foot of land eroded into the ocean every 1,330 years. He speculated that geologic columns would have the most height […]

Question: You start to have a scratchy feeling in the back of your throat.  After a few days it hurts to swallow, so you go to the doctor.  The doctor tells you that you have “strep throat”.  This means that you are infected with many Streptococcal bacteria.  You consider the fact that you are a […]

Q1. A farmer is raising rabbits. The average body weight in his rabbit population is 3 kg. The farmer selects the 10 largest rabbits in population, whose average body weight is 4 kg, and interbreeds them. If narrow-sense heritability in the rabbit population is 0.7, what is an expected body […]

A 74-year-old woman is transported to a regional burn center after being rescued from a house fire. Apparently, a space heater was knocked over and an area rug caught fire. The fire quickly spread throughout the house. She did not have any functional smoke detectors and became trapped in a […]