Each year at the beginning of the budget planning process, t…

Each year at the beginning of the budget planning process, the finance department sends a list of volume projections to all participating departments. These numbers are for use in planning each department’s operating budget. This is an example of what type of approach?

Imagine you are conducting a study on genetic and environmen…

Imagine you are conducting a study on genetic and environmental effects on a trait. You place individuals of different genotypes in different environments, measure their phenotype, then plot it in the graph below. What can you conclude about these reaction norms?

In class we learned about the “RNA World” and the role of ri…

In class we learned about the “RNA World” and the role of ribozymes in early life on Earth. The argument we made in class is that ribozymes were considered living because they had the ability to evolve. Can selection act on ribozymes? Consider the figure above for reference.