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2. BIO 240 Crime Scene Forensics Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com how forensic scientists take advantage of genomic variations in noncoding regions of DNA the techniques of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gel electrophoresis Introduction: In recent years, law enforcement has been revolutionized by molecular biology. When human tissues are left behind at crime scenes, these tissues can be collected and processed to yield samples of DNA,

3. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Disruption of a Marine Food Web Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Examine the graphs in the Lab Book, and describe any trends you observe among kelp, purple sea urchin, and sea otter populations. What happened to all three populations

4. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Entire Course (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration Paper BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1

5. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Introduction to Systematics Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What three taxa appear in the main window when you first enter the Systematics Lab Room? At what level of classification are these three taxa? List one trait for each of these three taxa that distinguishes it from the others.

6. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Invasive Species Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Describe the growth patterns of the mouse, cougar, and red-eared slider populations when pythons are not present. Describe the growth of the Burmese python population immediately after they were introduced. What happened to the populations of the other animals?

7. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 The Inheritance of Color Blindness Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What percentage of Couple 1’s male offspring will be color blind? What percentage of their female offspring will be color blind? Couple 2 comes into your office. The husband is color blind; the wife is homozygous for the normal vision allele.

8. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the following charts comparing prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal cells, and cells and viruses.

9. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What are some of the ways cells communicate similar to the ways we humans communicate with other people or with an organization? How are they different

10. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Would you consider a virus living or non-living? Why? How does this agree or disagree with classification scheme applied by the scientific community?\

11. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the events of cellular respiration and photosynthesis and examine the relationship between the two. Include the following in your paper: - For photosynthesis, include a summary of the events in: - The Light Dependent Reaction

12. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com There is a fierce competition among individuals within any species, humans included, to gain access to reproductive privileges. The “fittest” – a term that signifies the largest, prettiest, and most sexually attractive members, succeed in predominantly mating and having offspring, while the less attractive ones often do not. What is the role of such sexual selection from an evolutionary standpoint?

13. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Would two identical twins growing up in different neighborhood grow up differently?

14. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Answer the following questions, in a total of 500 to 700 words. - Describe the structure of DNA and the steps of protein synthesis. - Describe the relationships between the following terms: - DNA

15. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Craig Venter made a new life form (a bacterium) from scratch – essentially from computer database, and a few bottles of chemicals: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0521/J.-Craig-Venter- Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-form http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html If these and other such DNA-based technologies become widely used, how might they change the way evolution http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0521/J.-Craig-Venter- Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-form http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html

16. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Is there danger of discrimination based on testing for “harmful” genes? Would you support cloning of life forms? How about a human clone? What policies can you suggest that would prevent or permit such practices?

17. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Submit a minimum of one page draft outline for your Learning Team’s projects. Refer to instructions on final assignment provided under Week 5 details to assist in your research. Any one team member may submit this to the Assignment link.

18. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Consider the human eye, an exquisitely adapted organ that gives rise to stereo vision in full color (see, for instance, “The Evolution of Primate Color Vision” by Gerald H. Jacobs and Jeremy Nathans, Scientific American, April 2009 issue, pp. 56-63). Explain, strictly from within the framework of Darwinian evolution, how natural selection “crafted” such an organ.

19. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com How do you think we could trace back the evolution of organs within our body by hundreds of millions of years – from our reptile ancestors – by examining coevolution patterns and fitness landscapes? Discuss, for instance, the “missing link,” Tiktaalik, that has made headlines around the world (see “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin). What kind of selection pressures could have been at work here, based on species adaptations, climate changes,

20. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 4 Individual Assignment Speciation Paper For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Summarize three methods that could produce a new species from an existing species and provide examples, in 700 to 1050 words. Include a summary and specific examples: Allopatric speciation Sympatric speciation

21. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 4 Natural Selection Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper that describes Darwin’s mechanism of evolution by natural selection. Include the following points in your paper: · An explanation of Darwin’s assumptions and inferences based on his major observations. · An example of how natural selection may have worked in a population (for example, moth in New England, drug-resistant bacteria, giraffes, finches in the

22. BIO 240 Competitive Success/tutorialrank.com BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and Presentation (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 3 Times, Rating: A+ Prepare a 2,000 to 2,500-word paper, with at least five outside references, in which you examine evolution of our species as we spread across the world. In your paper, be sure to include the following items: - The origin and evolution of vertebrates. - Description of the primate adaptations for living in trees.

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