1. Critically discuss the difference between food intoxication and food infections. 2. In May 2012, a young woman in Georgia was zip lining and fell into a river. A short time later she was hospitalized for a severe life threatening disease, caused by what is commonly referred to as flesh […]

In peas, the dominant seed shape is round and the recessive is wrinkled(w). The dominant trait for pod color is green and recessive is yellow (y). A plant with round seeds and green pods that i heterozygous only for the color trait is crossed with a plant that has wrinkled […]

Q1. In 2009, a German politician proposed that all babies must be genetically fingerprinted at birth. What are the advantages, and potential problems, with this proposal? Q2. While walking throughout a forest you notice that someone has carved his or her initials into the bark of a tree. The initials […]

Wild turkeys are dramatically sexually dimorphic; domestic turkeys are far less so. Suppose that female wild turkeys chose males on the basis of expensive traits that indicate disease resistance and that artificial selection for rapid weight gain in domestic turkeys destroys female choice. What would you predict about the evolution […]