_________ retain more primitive characteristics than other primates, such as partially enclosed orbits.

a) strepsirhines

b) haplorhines

c) platyrrhines

d) catarrhines

Which burial environments would best promote fossilization?

a) burial by sediments or volcanic ash soon after death

b) burial after de-fleshing bones by scavengers

c) burial in ground water or acidic soil

d) burial in geologically active area with hot springs

Which is true about absolute radiometric dating methods?

a) provide only a relative date

b) provide a numerical date

c) measure radioactive decay from lighter to heavier isotopes

d) determine past climate history through stable isotope analysis

The ancestors of platyrrhines were more likely to have originated with ______ as this fossil species shares many skeletal features in common.

a) Apidium

b) Catopithecus

c) Aegyptopithicus

d) Dryopithecus

Which statement about Old World monkey evolution is not currently supported?

a) Fully modern bilophodont molars first appear in Victoriapithecus

b) modern monkeys have reverted back to the ancestral Y-5 molar pattern

c) Old World monkeys became more diverse than apes in the late Miocene

d) ape diversity decreased due to direct competition with Old World monkeys

Describe the cellular mechanism of formation of transport vesicles.

Discuss the medical need for viral cultivation and give examples of two in vivo and one in vitro method. Define the term pocks and plaques.

Discuss the lysogeny phase of the bacteriophage multiplication cycle. Briefly explain the medical significance of this cycle.

List and describe the general phases in animal virus multiplication. Contrast the multiplication of an enveloped virus with that of a naked virus.

You are attempting to instruct a small group of inexperienced people (college age) in wheelchair basketball. You are going to design a training program to teach this group on how play some aspect of the offense.

1.Describe the mode of control of the movement. Be sure to include discussion of the variant and invariant features and the speed-accuracy trade-off, as they relate to this particular movement. Couch your response in theories presented during the term.

Describe TWO advantages of phylogenomic methods over traditional single-gene phylogenetics and provide examples to justify answer.

In a cross between 2 black Horses a phenotypic ration of 9 black young, 3 brown young and 4 blond young is observed. Knowing that coat color is determined by two separate, independently segregating loci, what phenomena most likely explains this distribution?

3. Define and describe binary fission and draw a bacterial growth curve and describe each of its phases and embed the picture of your drawing

Discuss the mechanisms in which microorganisms reassemble and synthesize Adenosine triphosphate molecules during metabolic processes

What are the specific problems and charateristics of different types of plants on Verdugo Mountain ( i.e Black Sage, California Bush, Chamise)?

Answer the following for research question above

3.Identify two other ecological concepts that will also affect your research question.

4. find a peer-reviewed, research journal article whose topic addresses the same question. You will then need to provide the following information:

Name the concept

Researcher, year, organism

Question they researched

Conclusion they found