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You approach a powerline cut on our campus, which is adjacent to a parking lot and an undisturbed forest lot. The power company must come to clear brush when it gets too tall on a semi-regular basis. There is a small frequently mowed grass border around the parking lot. When you measure the Shannon Index at all three locations you find the following results. Parking lot H’ = 1.2 Power line cut H’ = 2.3 Forest H’ = 1.5 What hypothesis might explain these results?

A patient is found to be anemic with dysplastic changes in neutrophils.  Bone marrow examination reveals 4% blasts, dysplastic changes in erythroid and myeloid precursors and 12% ringed sideroblasts.  This disorder should be characterized as

Examine the following graph. Do you think this accurately represents the relationship between body mass and density? 

Arthralgia is pain in the __________

Before reporting hematology results for a patient, the scientist must do all of the following EXCEPT:

MacArthur found that warblers _________ with one another, because they used ______ portions of the tree.

In the third month of gestastion, what is the primary site of hematopoiesis?

The volcanic eruption on Krakatoa is best characterized by which form of succession.

A patient’s thrombin time is 25.5 seconds, and the control is 11.5 seconds. The patient’s palsma is mixed with an equal part of normal plasma.  The thrombin time is rerun and is 28.0 seconds with a control of 11.5 seconds.  These results indicate

When acanthocytes are found on the blood smear, it is usually the result of