A student designs a scientific investigation to test a hypothesis about the wheels on remote-control cars. After the experiment, the student reads and considers the information he collected and recorded during the scientific investigation. Which choice explains what the student is doing? The student is using scientific tools to measure and collect information about remote-control cars. The student is wishing he had more remote-control cars so that he could improve the design of his experiment. The student is making observations about remote-control cars, using one or more of his five senses. The student is analyzing the information collected during the experiment to draw a conclusion about what he has learned.

Over the past 60 years, many amphibian species have experienced significant population declines and some species have become extinct. scientists suspected that local human activities such as the destruction of wetlands, regional pollution, and deforestation were the main reasons for these losses. however, research over the past 20 years reveals significant amphibian population declines in protected areas of the world, such as nature preserves and parks. these global declines suggest widespread problems including increased ultraviolet radiation, acid rain, and disease. in switzerland, for example, 14 of the 20 native amphibian species are threatened with extinction. chytridiomycosis is a fungal disease first identified in 1998 as a cause of massive amphibian deaths. in some severely impacted populations, a few individuals have survived, perhaps because of some natural resistance. if these resistant individuals continue to survive and prosper, new resistant populations might emerge. this would be an example of the founder effect artificial selection genetic drift natural selection sexual selection

Prior to the development of dna fingerprinting, blood type could be used to determine possible parentage. although it might prove someone was not a parent, it could not show if someone was positively the parent, only that he or she might be a parent. which of the following is a true statement that can be made about parentage based on blood typing?

The human genome project is devoted to mapping the general dna sequence of our species. this could lead to the development of new medicines, as well as the possibility of using gene therapy to treat certain diseases. however, there are some ethical issues surrounding the mapping of individual genomes. one concern is a) that your genes may change over time, making the project useless. b) that insurance companies could discriminate based on genetic make-up. c) that since this has never been done before, we should probably not do it now. d) that sequencing our individual genomes is so expensive, it is a counter-productive strategy.