Using the red, blue, yellow and green beads, devise and lay out a three color code for each of the following letters (codon). For example Z = green : red : green.

In the spaces below the letter, record your “code”.

                E:            H:            I:            K:            L:

_ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ _

               O:           S:            T:            U:

_ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ _

Create codons for:    Start:            Stop:            Space:

                 _ _ _            _ _ _              _ _ _

Using this code, align the beads corresponding to the appropriate letter to write the following sentence (don’t forget start, space and stop): The mouse likes most cheese

How many beads did you use?

There are multiple ways your cells can read a sequence of DNA and build slightly different proteins from the same strand. We will not go through the process here, but as an illustration of this “alternate splicing”, remove codons (beads) 52 - 66 from your sentence above.

What does the sentence say now? (re-write the entire sentence)

Mutations are simply changes in the sequence of nucleotides. There are three ways this occurs:

1. Change a nucleotide(s)

2. Remove a nucleotide(s)

3. Add a nucleotide(s)

Using the sentence from exercise 2B:

Change the 24^th bead to a different color. What does the sentence say now (re-read the entire sentence)? Does the sentence still make sense?

Replace the 24^th bead and remove the 20^th bead (remember what was there). What does the sentence say (re-read the entire sentence)? Does the sentence still make sense? If it doesn’t make sense as a sentence, are there any words that do? If so, what words still make sense?

Replace the 20^th bead and add one between bead numbers 50 and 51. What does the sentence say now? Does the sentence still make sense?

In 3.a (above) you mutated one letter. What role do you think the redundancy of the genetic code plays in this type of change?

Based on your observations, why do you suppose the mutations we made in 3.b and 3.c are called frame shift mutations?

Which mutations do you suspect have the greatest consequence? Why?

Problem 15-8

Baskin Company's net income last year was $98,000. Changes in the company's balance sheet accounts for the year appear below:

The company declared and paid cash dividends of $36,000 last year.

Required:

A. Prepare the operating activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year. (Use the indirect method.) Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.

B. Prepare the investing activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year. Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.

C. Prepare the financing activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year. Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.

Choose a friend or family member that you know well. You should know their family background, how they tend to think and make decisions, and how they shop. You must have been on a number of shopping trips with this person. With this knowledge in mind, describe behaviors that demonstrate two out of the 3 major factors influencing consumer behavior (pages 113-123 in your textbook). Each behavior described must represent the influence of a different factor. For example, my dad is very affected by his attitudes about certain products and crowding in his shopping behavior. Attitudes are a psychological influence, while crowding is a situational influence, thus representing 2 out of the 3 major factor categories (i.e. psychological, social, and situational). For each influence give at least 2 different, concrete examples that demonstrate how your chosen person behaves under the influence. Thus, if I was writing about my dad, I would explain how my dad's consumer behavior is affected by his attitude towards products giving two different examples of how this is manifested and then explain why I think he behaves this way. Then I would do the same procedure but explain how my dad's consumer behavior is affected by crowding and give two different, concrete examples. This means that your complete assignment should have 4 different, concrete examples in total. Before you submit the assignment, check to make sure you have 4 different examples of your subject's behavior, two for each influence. If you only have 2 examples in your assignment, you do not have enough examples of your subject's behavior. Be sure to explain why you think your chosen person behaves the way s/he does. The point of this assignment is to clearly describe how these principles affect your subject's behavior and give multiple examples that demonstrate the concepts.

I suggest organizing the assignment this way.

Paragraph 1 - Tell me the person that you have chosen. You don't need to give me their name if you don't want to, but tell me generally who they are and what relationship they are to you that makes you able to describe their consumer behavior.

Paragraph 2 - Tell me the specific influence you are going to discuss and what category it is in (e.g., attitude which is psychological influence). Then describe two examples of your chosen person that demonstrate the influence. Finally, try to explain why you think this person behaves this way.

Paragraph 3 - Repeat the process in outlined for paragraph 2 but for an influence in another category.

Paragraph 4 - Brief summary

Please correct my writing for grammar?

Consumer behavior is a systematic process in which a person interacts with his or her environment to make decisions about products and services. Buyer behavior includes all the psychological, social, and physical behavior of potential consumers, and when they become aware of the existence of services or products, they evaluate and consume their purchases and inform others about these products and services. Consumer behavior is influenced by individual characteristics and the decision-making process that consist of three main factors: situational, social, and psychological factors. For this assignment, I decided to choose my husband because he enjoys shopping and loves to spend his free time in the mall. We are living together for more than 22 years and we have traveled a lot, but as a woman, I have never had any concern about shopping because my husband was ready to go shopping with me and even more eager than me.

My husband is very affected by learning from ads or friends and family. He learns almost everything he does and what he thinks. In short, purchasing decisions are significantly influenced by his friends and learning from ads. For example, we have a carpentry tool the size of a wardrobe because he decided to buy one after talking to his friends or family. Also, he always follows the ads and searches for their reviews by other buyers on the internet to be sure about what he wants to buy, so learning affects both attitude and perceptions. In this case, learning is a psychological influence, while his friends or family are social influences.

Attitude is a state of mind or feeling. Attitude refers to a person's feelings and inclinations toward a form or idea. The tendency to product is an experience that interacts with perception, thinking, feeling and reasoning. For example, when my husband becomes loyal to a brand, it is difficult to change his attitudes and beliefs towards that particular brand. He chooses a specific store for his shopping like Costco. He loves Costco and believes that he can find there everything that he needs and loves its environment because he feels that he can buy anything he wants in big size. He tries to buy the Kirkland brand for most of the things that we use. In these cases, attitude is a Psychological influence, while the shopping situation is a Situational influence.

As mentioned above, consumers’ behavior is influential in their decision to buy products. The choice of people also influences the decision of others, because they are in social interactions with each other. People acquire their beliefs through practice and learning. These beliefs, in turn, affect their buying behavior. In general, we are all consumers, because we receive and consume food, clothing, housing, education, services, ideas and etc. based on a specific order. Decisions made about consumption, demand for raw materials, transportation, technical services, the deployment and allocation of resources lead to the success of some industries, and the failure of others. Therefore, consumer behavior is an important factor in the recession or boom of business activities.

Post 1. Review "Building a Critical Skill: Managing Your Time" . Which of these techniques do you already use? What challenges do you have in managing your time and how do you overcome them? What skills have you learned since becoming a student? How can use these skills to complete your Formal Report in this class? If you could share on tip with an incoming student about time management what would it be?   Your post must be 150-250 words.

Post 2. After reviewing “netiquette” answer these three questions.

How would you rate your professional email skills?

What area mentioned in these resources could you improve?

What is the one email error you see most often?

A survey of 200 drivers who were at fault in an accident found that 62% were dropped by their insurance carrier. Conduct a hypothesis test at a 0.10 level of significance to determine if the percentage of drivers dropped by the insurance carrier is different than 60%. State the null and alternate hypotheses. Use whichever applicable approach to hypothesis testing that you prefer, specify the numerical comparisons to be made, and state your conclusion.

Directions: This assignment requires a 2-3 page written paper. Investigate various methods of performing survey research. Include personal and phone interviews, self-administered questionnaires, and computerized questionnaires in this assignment. State the advantages and disadvantages of each of these three types of survey research. Give an example survey research topic and specify which method you would use in that instance. State your reasons.

1. You are considering an increased capital expenditure for PP&E for next year. You are, however, concerned that the expenditure would hurt earnings per share over the next few years. Also, this might not be in your shareholders’ best interest. Is your concern justified? What additional information do you need to respond properly?

- I understand this has to do with depreciation, EPS, CAPEX, NPV, CF, and WACC but not quite sure how they all relate to one another. Explain this in the context of the problem please.

2. If debt is used to finance a new investment, shareholders will be worse off than if retained earnings were used to finance the new investment. Discuss the validity of the statement and state any assumptions deemed relevant.

-Please explain how WACC and CF's are involved in this scenario. Also, explain the company's strategy, growth or as a going concern.

This question is to give you a feel for the actual calculations involved with OLS regressions. In this case, the independent variable is time (t). We will talk more about adding time as a variable later. For now, just treat it like any other independent variable x. You should do the calculations manually without a computer. It is very important that you show your work as answers will vary a bit due to rounding errors so I need to know that you followed the correct methodology. I recommend not trying to type up your answers as typing this many numbers will likely involve at least some typos. Consider the following data (continued on next page):

(e) Find the F-statistic. Is the equation significant at the 1% level? Make sure you state the null and alternative hypotheses. Use the p-value approach.

(f) Find the 95% prediction interval for when t = 5.

(g) There are two ways of calculating SSR (a direct and an indirect way). You would have used one method for previous parts of this question. Now, use the method you did not previously use.

Show your progress and I'll rate your answer good! (It's in Excel btw) Thanks:)