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When observing a chicken skin cell in G2 under a microscope, you count 156 total chromatids. How many chromosomes does a male chicken have in its sperm cells? 

You are a medical student and are reviewing a case study about a past patient. The patient was 4 feet 8 inches tall at age 38, was unable to have children, and had an above-average intelligence. The patient also had an irregular number of chromosomes. What diagnosis would you give the patient?

The offspring of two different varieties are called hybrids

  What is Grandma’s genotype?

Mendel made 4 conclusions about heredity after his experiments on peas (2 laws were later summarized from these conclusions). Explain each of the conclusions (or laws) and how peas helped elucidate these conclusions. 

Pea plants were a prefect model organism because

Describe why variation is important to evolution. Please use an example. 

A soil pH of 6.5 is often considered ideal for phosphorus availability.  Why?

If no exception is thrown in a try block, all catch blocks associated with that try block are ignored.

When a program is running and a division by zero error occurs but is not addressed, the program crashes with an error message.