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(Prompt repeated so you don’t need to scroll):  Azia corpora…

(Prompt repeated so you don’t need to scroll):  Azia corporation is a newly formed company by two college students with a limited promotions budget. They are marketing an innovative new hair replacement product, based on a very new technology. They have contacted you for your help with their promotional strategy.  3. b. How would you rank order the priority of investing in the other two promotion strategy elements? Would you prioritize one over the the other? Why or why not? Please justify your responses (2 points).

Blue-headed wrasse fish are born as biological “females”, bu…

Blue-headed wrasse fish are born as biological “females”, but change into biological “males” when they grow to a certain size. This switch is the result of fitness differences between “males” and “females” at different stages of development. Large individuals are better able to defend nesting sites from competitors, so fitness is higher in “males” that are larger. Which of the following graphs illustrates the relationship between size and fitness in the two sexes of blue-headed wrasse?

Some dinosaurs had small, fluffy feathers called “downy” fea…

Some dinosaurs had small, fluffy feathers called “downy” feathers (similar to down feathers in a pillow), but lacked the type of feathers necessary for flight. These dinosaurs are believed to be the ancestors of modern birds, which have several types of feathers that allow them to fly.  How can we explain the evolution of an “intermediate” trait such as downy feather, if they were functionally useless for flight?