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A fascicle is a collection of muscle fibers

_____________ is a smooth, sustained muscle contraction

Epithelial cells never regenerate

On the image, please click on the cranial location

What are all other tissues derived from?

Describe the experimental design of Mendel’s pea experiments. Explain the special circumstances of the Pea plant that made everything workout.

Which is an example of an aneuploidy?

Let’s say you love tomatoes! Specifically you like the yellow oblong cherry tomatoes so you are breeding them in your garden. You have determined that yellow is recessive to red and oblong is dominant to round. During your experiments, while working with an F1 generation tomato plant, you accidently crossed your plant with a friend’s true-breeding red, oblong tomatoes. What kinds of seeds, and the relative proportions of each, will you see after this cross? Please include all genotypic and phenotypic frequencies. Show all work on a scratch paper.    

When observing a chicken skin cell in G2 under a microscope, you count 156 total chromatids. How many chromosomes does a male chicken have in its sperm cells? 

You are a medical student and are reviewing a case study about a past patient. The patient was 4 feet 8 inches tall at age 38, was unable to have children, and had an above-average intelligence. The patient also had an irregular number of chromosomes. What diagnosis would you give the patient?