Some american soldiers serving in iraq have become infected with a skin disease caused by a protist called leishmania, which is transmitted by sand flies. the leishmania organism bears flagella with a unique crystalline rod structure. one of its life stages is squiggly and worm-like in appearance, much like its relative in the same group, trypanosoma. leishmania belongs to the group

Which of the following scenarios is an example of the bottleneck effect? answers a in south africa, much of the afrikaner population is descended from a small number of dutch colonists. in this population, this is an unusually high frequency of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe), an elastic tissue disorder. b four white-tailed deer are introduced to a park in finland. thirty years after their introduction scientists compare the genes in the population and find that there is no variation. c during the industrial revolution, london's air became filled with soot. as a result, birds started eating more of the lighter moths because they were easier to spot than their darker counterparts. over time, the moth population changed so that there were more darker moths than lighter ones. d 10% of the population of american alligators in an area have the recessive trait albinism. a massive flood results in the death of 80% of the population. of the remaining population, 60% have the recessive trait of albinism.

Crossing over and independent assortment are important activities that occur during meiosis. what is the significance of these activities

The dense layer of connective tissue that surrounds an entire skeletal muscle is the