1.How Can You Classify Single-Celled Organisms? Some of the oldest and most common organisms on Earth consist of only one cell. These single-celled, or unicellular, organisms display all of the characteristics of living things. You might think that all unicellular organisms are very similar, but this is not the case. These fascinating creatures are extremely diverse.

What characteristics do you think could be used to classify different kinds of single-celled organisms?

Ablastocyst is a group of cells that forms after a human egg is fertilized. the blastocyst consists of two types of cells. some of these cells will become the placenta. what do the other cells develop into?

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

Atest cross can be used to -predict the phenotypes of a monohybrid cross -predict an unknown genotype of a purebred dominant plant -cross-breed dominant and recessive plants -give probabilities that a trait will appear