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• BIO 240 Crime Scene Forensics Worksheet
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• 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, which can then
  be treated to isolate specific DNA fragments that
  are highly variable in the human population.

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• BIO 240 Disruption of a Marine Food Web Worksheet
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• 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 when
  catastrophe struck the sea otters? Which
  populations were wiped out, and in what order?

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• BIO 240 Entire Course
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• BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells
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• BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus
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• BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures
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•  BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration
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• BIO 240 Introduction to Systematics Worksheet
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• 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.
• Which of these organisms are included in Eukarya?
  Select all that apply.

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• BIO 240 Invasive Species Worksheet
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• 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?

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• BIO 240 The Inheritance of Color Blindness
  Worksheet
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• What percentage of Couple 1s 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.
• Couple 3 comes into your office. The husband is
  color blind the wife is heterozygous for the
  color-blindness allele.

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• BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures
  Worksheet
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• Complete the following charts comparing
  prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal
  cells, and cells and viruses.

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• BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells
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• 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?

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• BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus
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• Would you consider a virus living or non-living?
  Why? How does this agree or disagree with
  classification scheme applied by the scientific
  community?

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• BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration
  Paper
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• 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- The Calvin
  Cycle (Light Independent Reaction)

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• BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1
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• 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?

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• BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 2
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• Would two identical twins growing up in different
  neighborhood grow up differently?

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• BIO 240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis
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• 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- Chromatin material- Gene- Chromosome-
  Use the following gene in protein synthesis

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• BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1
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• Craig Venter made a new life form (a bacterium)
  from scratch essentially from computer
  database, and a few bottles of chemicalshttp//w
  ww.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0521/J.-Craig-Venter
  -Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-formhttp
  //www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html

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• BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 2
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• 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?

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• BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline
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• Submit a minimum of one page draft outline for
  your Learning Teams 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.

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• BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 1
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• 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.

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• BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 2
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• 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).

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• BIO 240 Week 4 Individual Assignment Speciation
  Paper
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• 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
• Polyploidy
• Include at least three references.
• Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

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• BIO 240 Week 4 Natural Selection Paper
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• Write a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper that describes
  Darwins mechanism of evolution by natural
  selection.Include the following points in your
  paper An explanation of Darwins 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 Galapagos Islands, or another
  species you select)

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• BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and
  Presentation
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• 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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