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Scenario:A 4-month-old infant had been running a moderate fever for 36 hours, and a nervous mother made a call to her pediatrician. Examination and testing revealed no outward signs of infection or cause of the fever. The anxious mother asked the pediatrician about antibiotics, but the pediatrician recommended watching the […]

Choose a defect from the following list that you are unfamiliar with: 1. Anecephaly2. Chiari malformation3. Hydrocephalus4. Microcephaly5. AVMs Find at least 2 peer reviewed articles that identify either genetic or environmental factors that can lead to that anomaly. Summarize each article and discuss either how the environmental factors could […]

Question: Suppose that you perform the following monohybrid cross in dogs: Aa X Aa, in which the dominant A allele produces black coat color and the recessive a allele produces a white coat color. Imagine that all the offspring in the F1 generation are black. How do you interpret this outcome? […]

Q1. An abandoned indiana coal mine spoil bank contains chunks kof pyrite minerals. Under constant erosion and weathering, pyrites leech large amounts of sulfuric acid. The spoil banks are also mixed with large quqntities of basic limestone and clay carbonates. What has to happen over time? Q2. Let’s assume that […]