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In Snarlydragons, the number of teeth is polygenic trait.  The recessive condition (aabbcc) results in a toothless Snarlydagon, and the dominant condition (AABBCC) results in a Snarlydragon with 6 teeth.   1,  Give one genotype combination for a snarlydragon with 4 teeth. [A] 2.  How many teeth would a AaBbCc Snarlydragon have? [B]

Flint, Michigan, is a majority African American city dealing with contaminated water. Flint has been pointed to as an example of

The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Nazism, birth control, and Protestantism all

In the past, most people lived in rural areas and small towns, where it was surprising to encounter an actual stranger. Today, most of us live in cities, where we are constantly surrounded by total strangers. This leads directly to

A man verbally harasses a young woman on the subway while three other passengers watch. The woman pleads for help and the man jumps off as the doors open for the station. None of the three onlookers say or do anything. What sociological term best fits this example?

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer believed that “the triumph of advertising . . . is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.” What might you conclude if this is all you know about Adorno and Horkheimer?

From your course material, what’s both good and awful about palm oil?

The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century curriculums at schools like England’s Trinity College at Cambridge (The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity) leaned heavily on theology. Today, the vast majority of university students will never take any theology classes. Why did this change?

Approximately 12,000 years ago, people began to domesticate grain in what we now call the Middle East. This involved a process that slowly spread around the world over the next 6,000 to 7,000 years. In 1984, 8 percent of U.S. households had a computer, but that number was above 70 percent in 2008. How do these two things relate to social change?

A government continues to privatize once-public environmental resources, such as forests. This government does so to grow its revenue stream while the private companies who gain ownership of the forest continue deforestation at exponentially higher levels, permanently eliminating most of the country’s trees, all in the name of greater profit margins. What is this an example of?