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Attendance Reporting Period. Students who do not attend class during this period will have their courses removed and financial aid reduced or cancelled; When is the Attendance Reporting Period according to the syllabus?

Per your syllabus, various assignments are required in this course and constitute part of your total grade, which of the following assignments does NOT match its weight as stated in the syllabus?

Which of the following is correct regarding your lecture exam 1:”It’s listed in your syllabus”

The waters around McMurdo Sound average around 28.6 degrees Fahrenheit. That water is below freezing.

Since the alpha and beta globin genes of icefish are nonfunctional, icefish make no hemoglobin and have no erythrocytes. 

How was the loss of erythrocytes beneficial to icefish? Mark all that apply.

Arthur DeVries, professor at University of Illinois, has ventured to Antarctica more than 40 times. Where did he grow up that gave him plenty of experience in working in the cold and snow? 

What single component of the serum is responsible for half of the antifreeze protection in notothenioids?

Johan Rund was able to examine fresh icefish himself for the first time in 1953. He drew a blood sample from the fish and made a blood smear. How many erythrocytes did he count?

The below-freezing waters around Antarctica have been that temperature for the past 15 million years.