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BIO 240 Your world/uophelp.com

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.uophelp.com<br><br><br>• how forensic scientists take advantage of genomic variations in noncoding regions of DNA<br>• the techniques of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gel electrophoresis<br>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.<br>Which band pattern among Lanes 3 to 6 seems to be the closest match to the band pattern in Lane 2, where the crime-scene DNA fragment was loaded? Which suspect appears to be the culprit?<br>

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BIO 240 Your world/uophelp.com

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  1. BIO 240 Your world/uophelp.com For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

  2. BIO 240 Crime Scene Forensics Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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

  3. BIO 240 Disruption of a Marine Food Web Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 when catastrophe struck the sea otters? Which populations were wiped out, and in what order?

  4. BIO 240 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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

  5. BIO 240 Introduction to Systematics Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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. • Which of these organisms are included in Eukarya? Select all that apply.

  6. BIO 240 Invasive Species Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 The Inheritance of Color Blindness Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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. • Couple 3 comes into your office. The husband is color blind; the wife is heterozygous for the color-blindness allele.

  8. BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Complete the following charts comparing prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal cells, and cells and viruses.

  9. BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration Paper For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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:

  12. BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 2 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Would two identical twins growing up in different neighborhood grow up differently?

  14. BIO 240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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- Chromatin material

  15. BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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-formhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html

  16. BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Resource: Ch. 14 of Understanding Psychology • Answer the following questions in 100 to 200 words each: • What are the different ways in which we evaluate people? • How do these factors play a role in our expectations of other people?

  17. BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 4 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 4 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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).

  20. BIO 240 Week 4 Individual Assignment Speciation Paper For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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 Week 4 Natural Selection Paper For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.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.

  22. BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

  23. BIO 240 Your world/uophelp.com For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

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