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A current UC Santa Cruz graduate student who earned their biology degree at SFSU is doing...

A current UC Santa Cruz graduate student who earned their biology degree at SFSU is doing research to replicate classic experiments that investigated the inheritance patterns of traits in the sweet pea plant. In one experiment, they mated a plant with wrinkled seeds (plant A) to a plant with smooth seeds (plant B). Of the resulting 100 offspring plants, they noted that 48 had wrinkled seeds and 52 had smooth seeds. Answer the questions below and make sure you fully explain your logic.

PART 1 (3 points):

Based on the results of the experiment above, can you conclude that the wrinkled phenotype is recessive to the smooth phenotype? Why or why not?

PART 2 (3 points):

In a subsequent experiment, they crossed two of the smooth pea plants that resulted from the original cross. Of the 100 offspring, 24 plants had wrinkled seeds and 76 had smooth seeds. Can you conclude from this which of the two phenotypes is dominant? Explain your reasoning.

PART 3 (3 points):

Based on the results of both crosses (in PART1 and PART2), what were the genotypes of the original two plants (plant A and plant B)? How did you figure this out?

In: Biology

In Arizona, all students in elementary and secondary schools have to take AIMS tests (which was...

In Arizona, all students in elementary and secondary schools have to take AIMS tests (which was largely replaced by AZmerit tests recently) as the state-mandated standardized assessment of math and English proficiency. A teacher wonders if high school dropout rate would be correlated with AIMS test results in a particular county. To explore this question, she collected the dropout rates and the AIMS Math pass rates (taken in 2012) at the county level for cohort 2014 from all counties in Arizona, as listed in the table below.

County ID #

AIMS Math Pass Rate (%)

Dropout Rate (%)

1-Apache

39

33

2-Cochise

55

20

3-Coconino

60

24

4-Gila

40

25

5-Graham

56

22

6-Greenlee

54

14

7-La Paz

48

30

8-Maricopa

64

23

9-Mohave

52

25

10-Navajo

49

21

11-Pima

55

29

12-Pinal

53

29

13-Santa Cruz

57

15

14-Yavapai

61

21

15-Yuma

45

23

Calculate the Z scores for all the scores of AIMS English pass rate and high school dropout rate, separately. (please show work for a few so I understand how to do it)

Explain the direction and strength of the relationship based on the r.

In: Statistics and Probability

R problem 1. Student records. Create an S3 class studentRecord for objects that are a list...

R problem

1. Student records. Create an S3 class studentRecord for objects that are a list with the named elements ‘name’, ‘subjects completed’, ‘grades’, and ‘credit’. Write a studentRecord method for the generic function mean, which returns a weighted GPA, with subjects weighted by credit. Also write a studentRecord method for print, which employs some nice formatting, perhaps arranging subjects by year code.

Finally create a further class for a cohort of students, and write methods for mean and print which, when applied to a cohort, apply mean or print to each student in the cohort.

In: Statistics and Probability

In the Introductory Survey we asked if you had paid employment while studying at university. We...

In the Introductory Survey we asked if you had paid employment while studying at university. We also asked this question in the equivalent survey for Semester 2 2018. A summary of the results for this question from both surveys is shown in the table below. ‘Working’ denotes students who said that they had some kind of paid employment while studying, ‘Total’ denotes the total number of students who responded to these questions in the surveys. 2019 Semester 1 Working 355 Total 627 2018 Semester 2 250 510 STAT101 includes a very wide range of students. For this question we will assume that these samples can be regarded as random samples from the total populations of first year UC students in Semester 1 2019 and Semester 2 2018, respectively. a) Use the data to construct a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion of first year UC students who were working while studying at the start of Semester 1 2019. b) Use the data to construct a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion of first year UC students who were working while studying at the start Semester 2 2018. c) Use your confidence intervals to comment on the suggestion that the proportion of first year UC students who were working while studying was higher at the start of Semester 1 2019 than at the start of Semester 2 2018. Give your response in one or two brief sentences.

In: Statistics and Probability

Hypothesis Test: Proportion The university lecturer also wants to ensure that not too many people fail...

Hypothesis Test: Proportion

The university lecturer also wants to ensure that not too many people fail their course (obtain a mark less than 45). They decide to test if the proportion failing their course in the new cohort is the same as in the previous cohort. In the previous cohort 6 out of 100 students failed. In the new cohort 0.269 proportion of 130 students failed.

Test your hypothesis at the 95% level, what is your p-value?

Without conducting further calculations, would a 95% confidence interval give the same conclusion? State your reasoning

In: Statistics and Probability

The number of students in the MPH program by county is given below. If a student...

The number of students in the MPH program by county is given below. If a student is selected at random from this dataset, find the probability that:

county # of students percentage
escambia 106 21.2
walton 151 30.2
santa rosa 150 30
okaloosa 93 18.6
total 500 100

MPH program (Show your work)

  1. The student is from Escambia county
  2. The student is from Santa Rosa county
  3. The student is from either Escambia or Santa Rosa county
  4. The student is not from Santa Rosa county

(Show your work)

In: Statistics and Probability

Total fertility rate (TFR)- formula, interpretation, advantages, disadvantages- period v. cohort Unmet need for family planning

Total fertility rate (TFR)- formula, interpretation, advantages, disadvantages- period v. cohort Unmet need for family planning

In: Statistics and Probability

Two point charges, 3.4 uC and -2.0 uC, are placed 5.0 cm apart on the x-axis....

Two point charges, 3.4 uC and -2.0 uC, are placed 5.0 cm apart on the x-axis. Assume that the negative charge is at the origin and the positive x-axis is directed from the negative charge to the positive.

At what points along the x-axis is the electric field zero?

At what points along the x-axis is the potential zero? Let V=0 at r=infinity.

My instructor gave a hint saying there are 2 locations where the potential is zero and only one location where the E-field is zero.

In: Physics

What actions by Santa Anna caused Texas to declare independence? How did the leaders of San...

What actions by Santa Anna caused Texas to declare independence?

How did the leaders of San Antonio (Bexareños) respond to the actions of Santa Anna and of the leaders of Saltillo?

What was the Navarro family position concerning Federalist v. Centralist? (Jose Antonio Navarro)

Explain the role Jose Antonio Navarro played in Texas' independence.

In: Economics

1. We have a hollow metallic sphere with charge -5.0 uC and radius 5.0 cm. We...

1.

  1. We have a hollow metallic sphere with charge -5.0 uC and radius 5.0 cm. We insert a +10uC charge at the center of the sphere through a hole in the surface. What charge now rests on the outer surface of the sphere?

    +5 uC

    +10 uC

    +15 uC

    -5 uC

  2. A free electron is in an electric field. With respect to the field, it experiences a force acting:

    Parallel

    Anti-parallel

    Perpendicular

    Along a constant potential line

  3. A parallel plate capacitor has a capacitance of 20 uF. What charge on each plate will produce a potential difference of 36 V between the plates of the capacitor?

    7.2 x 10-4 C

    3.6 x 10-4 C

    1.8 x 10-4 C

    0.9 x 10-4 C

  4. What is the intensity of sound from a band with a sound level of 120 dB? (Io = 10-12 W/m2)

    1 W/m2

    1.2 W/m2

    10 W/m2

    12 W/m2

  5. Replacing a wire resistor with another of the same material and length but with three times the diameter will have the effect of changing the resistance by what factor?

    0.33

    1/9

    3

    9

In: Physics