Assume the role of a research scientist who is applying for grant money to fund research on ALS. Describe the particular area of research that you would investigate (drug-based therapies that would slow the progression of the disease, tissue repair/regeneration, gene therapy, etc.) and provide valid scientific reasoning as to […]

The population of Greece is 11-million people. The birth rate is 9-per thousand per year and the death rate is 9-per thousand per year. The fertility rate is 1.3 children per woman. Estimate the increase in annual food production required to feed the estimated population size one year from now, […]

Assume that one hundred wolves of the same species reside on an isolated island develop a disease due to inbreeding. Scientists who ventured to the island have found that eight of the wolves have the disease and blood samples from all of the wolves on the island revealed that 34 […]

A cell undergoing meiosis produces a daughter cell, during which one nondisjunction event occurs. If the number of chromosomes in a normal diploid cell of this organism (not undergoing cell division) is 38, how many chromosomes are present in this daughter cell? a. 19 b. 20 c. 36 d. 37 […]