Name three racial or ethnic disparities that exist in the practice or enforcement of current U.S. drug laws

Identify an unsolved problem about the microbiota that will be best solved through systems biological approaches.

What problem are you trying to solve? Why is it important?
What will be the objective of the study?

Does the somatosensory cortex have a columnar organization similar to the visual cortex?

a. Yes, alternating columns contain neurons responding to pleasant and aversive stimuli

b. No, columnar organization doesn’t make sense in the somatosensory system because the receptor types are too diverse to dedicate a full column to each sensory attribute.

c. No, the body is already represented several times in the somatosensory cortex, with different modalities assigned to different brain regions

d. Yes, alternating columns contain neurons responding to inputs arriving on the surface of the body and internal receptors

e. Yes, alternating columns contain neurons linked to slowly and rapidly adapting receptors.

Does management impact the carbon cycle?

Which of these attributes are similar between the visual and somatosensory systems?

a. All axons that carry information from the periphery are myelinated

b. All of these answers are correct

c. Topographical organization

d. Peripheral information reaches the cortex via the LGN

e. Peripheral receptors depolarize in response to environmental stimuli.

Is bipedalism a uniquely human trait? What makes us morphologically human and different? Expound on the uniqueness of humans compared to some of our closest relatives. Think behavior, neurological, social etc.?

1. What evidence was found in the baboon colony suggesting stress results in

physiologic damage?

2. What specialized nerve cell allows for the detection of color?

3. What structures of the eye allow for visual perception?

4. Which lobe in the CNS receives information from the optic nerve?

5. Which lobe receives information regarding chemical changes in the mouth and nose?

6. Where is auditory information interpreted (which lobe)?

11. Distinguish between a monophyletic, paraphyletic, and polyphyletic taxa. Give an example of each. How does the concept of a clade relate to these concepts.

1. a. Why is it important to use a sequence region of high dissimilarity to make a strain-specific primer?

b. Why does only one primer, and not both, need to target a highly dissimilar region?

Gene therapy attempts to correct a genetic deficiency by inserting a normal version of the affected gene into the patient's cells. For this to be effective, the cells need to be _______cells that will not passed on to offspring, but they also need to be cells that will keep dividing for the lifetime of the patient.  Currently, ______ cells, which produce all the blood and immune cell types of the body, are a preferred target.What limits the use of gene therapy is that it works best on relatively simple conditions caused by the mutation of one single gene.  Retroviruses are ________viruses that insert a(n) ________copy of their genome into that of their host cells.  After the insertion, the viral genome will be permanently part of the host cell genome.

__________ are the most numerous WBC and are primarily involved in ___________.

A) Lymphocytes; acquired immunity

B) Neutrophilis; phagocytosis

C) Neutrophilis; acquired immunity

D) Lymphocytes; phagocytosis

Explain how the concept of Shifting Baselines and Tragedy of the Commons applies to the overfishing of the world's oceans. In other words, how might each of these concepts contribute to our inability to sustainably harvest fish?