A researcher with a reputation for yelling at graduate students wants to know how the seed yield of transgenic plants (that are constructed specifically with the objective of increasing seed yield) she is growing in a plot compares to that of the wild-type plants growing in another plot. The entire population of the wild-type plants have been characterized, but she only has enough funding to measure a sample of the transgenics. Her null hypothesis is that the average seed yield of the transgenics will not differ from the wild-type. Her graduate student secretly has an arm injury, and hasn't told her for fear of inciting the researcher's reputed wrath. Because his arm hurts, the graduate student inadvertently collects less heavy samples. This type of non-random sampling would increase the likelihood of committing a Type II error. a. True
b. False

Mike was adopted, and his biological family history is unknown. although he is healthy, he would like some understanding of his genetic makeup, including potential health risks and genes that he could pass on to his children. mike has heard about commercial laboratories that can compare segments of your dna to those of people with common hereditary diseases in order to give you some idea of how susceptible you are to the diseases. the results of these types of tests are highly inconclusive. if mike's dna showed that he shares similarities in a segment of dna with people who have a given disease, his chances of developing that disease or passing it on to his children may be slightly elevated, but they are not 100 percent. these tests can cost more than $2,500 and are not covered by many insurance companies. do you think that mike should undergo the genetic tests? explain your answer. what are the potential pros and cons of having such tests done? describe how the availability of these genetic tests might affect the frequency of genetic diseases in individuals and populations.

Compare and contrast region e in the illustration above with region d. describe the physical characteristics of each region.

What do lava flows made of aa indicate about the type of volcanic eruption that occurred? a. the eruption was viscous. b. the eruption was pyroclastic. c. the eruption was explosive. d. the eruption was quite. !