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

Arrange the following in the correct sequence, from earliest to most recent, in which these plant traits originated. 1. sporophyte dominance, gametophyte independence 2. sporophyte dominance, gametophyte dependence 3. gametophyte dominance, sporophyte dependence a) 1 → 2 → 3 b) 2 → 3 → 1 c) 2 → 1 → 3 d) 3 → 2 → 1 e) 3 → 1 → 2

What kind of crystalline solid is graphite? o a. molecular solid b. metallic solid o c. network solid d. ionic solid

Experiments in environmental toxicology can sometimes be manipulative experiments in which the researcher actively chooses and manipulates the independent variable. in hunt's study, for example, dosages of bpa were manipulated and the effects were measured. in manipulative studies, the researcher controls all the other variables in the experiment, so any health effects observed in the test subjects can be attributed to differences in the independent variable. in other cases, researchers use natural experiments in which the dependent variable (typically a measure of organism health) is measured under differing contexts that are not manipulated. say, for example, that an accidental chemical spill contaminates five ponds. to determine the possible effects of the toxic chemical on frogs, a researcher could compare the hatching rate of frog eggs laid in those five ponds to the hatching rate of eggs laid in five uncontaminated ponds nearby. this would be an example of a natural experiment because concentrations of the toxic chemical in the ponds were not controlled by the experimenter, but rather resulted from the chemical spill. drag type of experiment on the left to the example of experiment on the right. blood concentrations of bpa in college students are compared to their recent manipulative consumption of canned food items 2. the feeding behavior of fish in streams that receive acidic runoff from strip mines is compared to the feeding behavior of fish in unaffected streams. the deformity rate in baby birds from nests in pesticide-sprayed fields is compared to the deformity rate in birds from nests in unsprayed fields 4 tumor development is compared in mice exposed to five dosages of a known carcinogen in the laboratory foraging activity levels are compared in tadpoles exposed to four concentrations of toxic metals in the laboratory. growth of corn plants is compared in field plots sprayed with three different dosage: s of weed killer 7 bpa concentrations in the urine of people with diabetes are compared to bpa concentrations in the urine of people without diabetes - natural; manipulative