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In fruit flies, the allele for gray body color is dominant to the allele for black body color.  A scientist crosses two fruit flies who are both heterozygous for this trait.  What is the expected phenotypic ratio from this cross?

The rates of depression experiences by European Americans and African-Americans are ____.

Outline the various causes of dissociative disorders.

For the vignette, please give a diagnosis and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. Elise is a 35-year-old architect. She comes to you in great distress, feeling that she is unable to work, and generally unable to function. She says that she feels tired all the time, to the point of feeling completely exhausted. She says that she cries easily, and almost every day. She is having difficulty sleeping and has lost 20 pounds in the last 2 months without trying. She says that things have been “real bad” for the last 2 months; she doesn’t enjoy doing anything and thinks frequently of suicide. However, she also says that she has never been a very happy person. She says that things rarely go right for her, and she has given up on expecting good things to happen for her.

Which step in this process requires use of restriction enzymes?

True or False: Eating disorders as a group have higher mortality than any other psychiatric problem including depression.

What is a negative cognitive triad? How does it affect an individual’s view of themselves and events around them?

People with conversion disorder experience motor or sensory problems that ____ a neurological or medical disorder.

In the Mendelian genetics lab, we studied the results of crosses between corn plants with purple kernels and corn plants with yellow kernels.  Alternate versions of a gene, like purple and yellow kernel color, are known as

Chantal is 10% below what her physician says would be an ideal body weight for her. She eats very little food, and what she does eat, she tends to try to get rid of by taking laxatives. Chantal has symptoms consistent with