The oak tree pathogen Phytophthora ramorum has migrated 650 km in ten years. West Nile virus spread from New York State to 46 others states in five years. The difference in the rate of spread is probably related to

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

In a garden 40% of the flowers are roses and the rest are carnations. If 25% of the roses and 10% of the carnations are red, the probability that a red flower selected at random is a rose.

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In the pearl-millet plant, color is determined by three alleles at a single locus: Rp1 (red), Rp2 (purple), and rp (green). Red is dominant over purple and green, and purple is dominant over green (Rp1 > Rp2 > rp). What will be expected phenotypes and ratios of offspring produced by the Rp1/rp × Rp2/rp crosses?

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Although extinction is a natural process, current extinctions are of concern to environmentalists because

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A patient’s one remaining kidney has moderate renal artery stenosis that reduces renal artery pressure distal to the stenosis to 85 mm Hg, compared with the normal level of 100 mm Hg. Which of the following is most likely decreased in this patient 2 weeks after the stenosis has occurred, assuming that his diet is unchanged?

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

 ______ required to maintain ES cells in an undifferentiated state.