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As water boils and turns to steam, what happens to the hydrogen bonds?

An organism that is neither prokaryotic nor photosynthetic, and must obtain its nutrients by secreting digestive enzymes into the environment, belongs to which group of organisms?

List/identify, summarize and offer an example of three of the informal fallacies discussed in our main reading for this week.*** Remember that copying/pasting from any course materials (other than your own words in the Prep Guide), the internet, or using generative AI like ChatGPT to help “write” or “proofread” or “improve” your answer violates my Academic Integrity policy. Note that generative AI is now incorporated into many popular writing and translating platforms (e.g. Grammarly, Quillbot, Google Translate, DeepL, etc.), so if you’re using those platforms, you’re using generative AI in violation of my policy. USE YOUR OWN WORDS or, if you are unable to do that, properly quote/informally cite them as I discuss in the Academic Integrity section of the Syllabus ***  

Discuss the English roots of policing, including an elaboration of how this history has influenced the structure, duties, and functions of modern US policing.

What is the purpose of molecular chaperones?

A standard normal distribution (z-distribution) has a mean of µ = 40 with σ = 10. What proportion of the scores in this distribution are greater than X = 55?

Which carbohydrate is the most structurally complex?

For the following set of questions (43-49) You will use the following data set: You wanted to see how many hours a small sample of your friends studied for the statistics test. Your friends reported studying for the following set of hours:          0, 10, 2, 1, 2   You can use each question to build upon itself as needed.  Remember to show your work.   For this  question you can use the whiteboard provided via proctorio, as well as your scrap pieces of paper. The “insert math equation” above can help you type in answers as well. 

Bonus Q3. The birth weight of healthy, full term infants in the United States in nearly normally distributed. The mean weight is 3,500 grams, and the standard deviation is 500 grams. We are assuming a standard normal distribution (as such standard error is not necessary). What is the z-score for an infant who weighs 2,750 grams. What is the corresponding proportion of infants below 2,750 grams. (2 pts)    

Most animals convert carotenoids to which vitamin?