Chris lives in a city that experiences heavy rainfall with average annual precipitation of 882 millimeters. it is warm all year. mark lives in city with an average annual rainfall of 40 millimeters. it has hot summers and cool winters. chris's city is in a climate, while mark's city is in a climate

Aresearcher is studying the science of attractiveness and asks volunteer test subjects to rank what trait they find most attractive in a person what type of variable is the dependent variable in this experiment

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.

Which kind of mutation has occurred when the codon for an amino acid is changed to a stop codon? a. a silent mutation b. a missense mutation c. a frameshift mutation d. a nonsense mutation