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Humans have ___ autosomes and ___ sex chromosomes.

Consider information from the authors of your text about the availability heuristic. If you wanted to improve customer satisfaction survey ratings for your company, which of the following would you ask customers in terms of their suggestions for improvement?

The phenotype of an organism is the result of interactions between its genotype and:

Tom and Julius are both in line for a movie, but it sells out before either of them can get tickets. Tom is the last person in line, but Julius is directly behind the person who got the last ticket. Based on the idea of counterfactual reasoning, why will Julius be more upset than Tom?

For fill-in questions, the answer will be just one or a few words long.  Canvas automatically grades these questions, and is only marked correct if you spell your answer exactly as I entered it in the answer key (even extra spaces or punctuation is accounted for).  Spelling biological terms correctly is important (yes, spelling counts in this course), but if Canvas marks your answer wrong because of a minor spelling error or punctuation difference don’t fret because I check every answer that has been marked wrong by Canvas and award credit when the answer is correct.   FILL-IN: The term ___ is defined as the number of surviving, fertile offspring produced by an individual.  Spell carefully.

The fact that all seven of the garden pea traits studied by Mendel obeyed the principle of independent assortment means that:

Land masses and bodies of water closer to the ______________________  absorb more heat energy from the sun because of the curvature of the earth.

Which of the following is a form of ecological degradation due to pollution?

An ecologist monitoring the number of gorillas in a wildlife refuge over a five-year period is studying ecology at which level?

What is the heading used to indicate your introduction in an APA manuscript?