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#Question id: 9150

For mountain ranges that are subjected to prevailing winds, why is the climate drier on the leeward (downwind) side?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. Deserts create dry conditions on the leeward side of mountain ranges.

  2. The sun illuminates the leeward side of mountain ranges at a more direct angle, converting to heat energy, which evaporates most of the water present.

  3. Pushed by the prevailing winds on the windward side, air is forced to rise, cool, condense, and drop its precipitation, leaving drier air to descend the leeward side.

  4. Air masses pushed by the prevailing winds are stopped by mountain ranges and the moisture is used up in the stagnant air masses on the leeward side.

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#Question id: 15005

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You identify a previously unidentified plant species and decide to study its genetics. You establish true breeding strains for leaf shape (longer than wide vs equal length and width) and flower color (white vs. yellow). When you perform a dihybrid cross with these strains, you find that your results are very different than those predicted by a 9:3:3:1 ratio. You calculate a chi square and get a p value of less than 0.0001. Which of the following statements is most accurate based on this observation?
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#Question id: 15004

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following statements about a pedigree would be most definitive in determining a recessive pattern of inheritance?
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#Question id: 15003

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Laurie met her husband Jim at a support group for families dealing with PKU (phenylketonurea), a recessive genetic disorder. Laurie and Jim both have one sister who is affected with PKU and no other family history of the disorder. They come to you as a genetic counselor to ask what their risk is of having an affected child. What do you tell them?
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#Question id: 12173

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Female with only one X chromosome is a characteristics of individual with
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#Question id: 11909

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In the birds, butterflies and some reptiles, sex is still chromosomal, but the male that possesses two identical sex chromosome while the female has two different sex chromosome,  in this case which one is determining  sex?
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#Question id: 11908

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

What is the phenotype of a person who has XXXY sex chromosomes?