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An animal breeder wants to know if a black guinea pig is homozygous or heterozygous for coat color. He test crosses the black guinea pig with a homozygous recessive white guinea pig. If one of the offspring is white, what is the genotype of the black parent guinea pig?

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GENETICS PROBLEM SOLVING

Monohybrid Crosses

  1. Free ear lobes in humans is dominant (F) to attached earlobes (f). Show the cross between two individuals that are heterozygous for free earlobes. Solve by filling out a Punnett square. What will be the probable genotypic and phenotypic ratios of their offspring?

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Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:

 

  1. Tongue rolling in humans is a dominant trait (R) to non-rolling (r). If two parents are unable to roll their tongue, what will be the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of their offspring? Solve by filling out a punnett square

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Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:

 

Test Cross

  1. An animal breeder wants to know if a black guinea pig is homozygous or heterozygous for coat color. He test crosses the black guinea pig with a homozygous recessive white guinea pig. If one of the offspring is white, what is the genotype of the black parent guinea pig?

 

Pedigree Study

  1. The ability to taste a chemical called PTC (phenolthiocarbimide) is controlled by a dominant gene (T). Use (t) for non-tasters. Shaded individuals cannot taste PTC (non-tasters). Record the genotype for all designated individuals using the table below the pedigree. For unknown dominant phenotype individuals use (T?).

 

 

 

Generation Individual Genotype (1/2 point each)
I. 1. Click or tap here to enter text.
II. 4. Click or tap here to enter text.
II. 5. Click or tap here to enter text.
III. 2. Click or tap here to enter text.

 

Dihybrid Crosses

  1. If a purebred thorny plant (T) with red flowers (R) were crossed with a plant that was purebred for yellow flowers (r) and no thorns (t), what would be the phenotypic ratio for the F₂ Generation (like the Mendel dihybrid cross for pea shape and color in notes and textbook)?

 

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F₂ Phenotypic Ratio: Click or tap here to enter text.

  1. In fruit flies long wing is dominant to vestigial (underdeveloped) wing and brown body is dominant to black body. Cross a fruit fly that is homozygous dominant for long wing and heterozygous for brown body with a fruit fly that is heterozygous for brown body and homozygous for vestigial wing.

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Phenotypic Ratio:

 

Incomplete Dominance

  1. Snapdragon flowers can be red, white, or pink. Pink flowers result when red and white flowers cross-pollinate. Red snapdragons are homozygous red (RR) and white snapdragons are homozygous white (R’R’). Show the cross between a red snapdragon and a pink snapdragon.

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Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:

 

Codominance

  1. In Erminette chickens, one allele produces black feathers (B) and the other produces white feathers (W). Heterozygous individuals have some black feathers and some white feathers, giving them a speckled appearance. If a black rooster and a white hen mate, what would be the ratio of genotypes and phenotypes in the F2 generation?

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Genotypic Ratio:

Phenotypic Ratio:

 

Blood Typing

  1. A man with type A+ blood and a woman with type B+ blood have a baby with type O- blood. Be sure to include Rh factor (+/-). Determine the genotype for each:

Man = A+:

Woman = B+:

Baby =O-:

 

  1. There is a mix up at the hospital between parents and babies. As the administrator in charge, you MUST send the correct baby home with it proper parents. Match proper parents with their baby.

 

Baby R is A+
Baby S is B+
Baby T is B-
Baby U is O-

 

Proper Match:

Parents #1 are blood type AB- and O- Baby: Click or tap here to enter text.
Parents #2 are blood type A- and B- Baby: Click or tap here to enter text.

 

Sex-linked

  1. Hemophilia in humans is caused by a recessive mutation on the X-chromosome. What will be the outcome (genotypic and phenotypic ratio) of mating between a homozygous normal female (XHXH) and a hemophilic male (XhY)? See lecture notes for proper recording of ratios for each sex.

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The officer involved in the Michael Brown shooting was not indicted by the grand jury that heard the case. Why? Do you think that the officer who shot Brown had other options available to him? What would they have been? If other options were available, why didn’t he use them?

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The Case The Michael Brown Shooting

Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, on August 9, 2014. (See also “the Ferguson effect,” the opening story in Chapter 6 Lig). Just before noon that day, Brown and a friend, Dorian Johnson, left a nearby convenience store. Surveillance video showed Brown stealing some cigarillos. Minutes later, Officer Wilson pulled his cruiser alongside the two young men. Upon noticing that Brown fit the description of the suspect in the convenience store theft, he asked Brown and Johnson to move to the sidewalk. An altercation ensued, then two shots were fired from inside the vehicle. Officer Wilson claimed that the shots were fired when he and Brown struggled over his service weapon. One bullet grazed Brown’s thumb. Brown then ran east and Wilson gave chase. Brown stopped, turned around, and reportedly moved toward Wilson. Officer Wilson then shot Brown several times, fatally wounding him.
As with many police-citizen altercations where force is used, the details surrounding the Michael Brown shooting are cloudy. Some witnesses reported seeing Brown reach through Wilson’s car window and punch him. Others said Brown never laid a

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hand on Wilson. Likewise, some witnesses reported that Brown never moved toward Wilson before he was shot. Others said he did. Officer Wilson testified that Brown charged at him. In the end, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson. The announcement set off a wave of street protests, and rioting ensued. Since then, all police shootings, especially of minority suspects by white officers, have received intense criticism and scrutiny.
The Case of Michael Brown raises some interesting questions:

  1. The officer involved in the Michael Brown shooting was not indicted by the grand jury that heard the case. Why?
  2. Do you think that the officer who shot Brown had other options available to him? What would they have been?
  3. If other options were available, why didn’t he use them?

Write a report on how much it follows the guidelines of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

Go to https://txwes.edu/media/twu/content-assets/documents/it/policyprocedures/firewall-policy.pdf.

Read and compare against the guidelines in http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-41-
Rev1/sp800-41-rev1.pdf.

Write a report on how much it follows the guidelines of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. You don’t have to use the firewall policy from http://www.txwes.edu; you can use any firewall policy from a big organization to compare against the guidelines.

Find the definition of some of the words by using Oxford English Dictionary and explain how the definition helps to read the text. Provide information about parts of the text and explain how it helps to understand the text.

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Annotations

Using the attached story, highlight areas in the passage to make annotations throughout to offer more information about a particular allusion, word, or idea in a text. Find the definition of some of the words by using Oxford English Dictionary and explain how the definition helps to read the text. Also, provide information about parts of the text and explain how it helps to understand the text. The goal is to foster curiosity and engagement with the text to help become an interactive reader.

Stacy’s detailed financial statements show that her company has excellent financial prospects, but still no bank will lend to her. You would consider lending to her, but you don’t have the money to spare right now. What could Stacy do to persuade a bank to lend the money?

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DEBTOR/CREDITOR RELATIONS, AGENCY, AND EMPLOYMENT

Using references from the background materials, write 2 full pages (excluding title and reference pages) discussing the following legal issues involved in the effort to increase the supply of blueberries for Stacy’s business. Be sure to include 2 scholarly sources in your paper.

Scenario:

1. In the area Stacy lives, there are several “U-Pick” organic blueberry farms where customers are allowed to pick their own blueberries and pay for them by weight. Stacy is thinking of supplementing her supply by hiring employees to pick blueberries from such farms. She is also considering resourcing blueberries from another local farmer, even though these blueberries probably will be a little more expensive than the “U-Pick” blueberries and not quite as fresh. From an employment law perspective, which approach would be preferable?

2. Stacy also wants to get a small loan to purchase a large batch of blueberries from Woody (for potential freezing) and to hire one or two more employees for the bakery. Unfortunately, loan officers from several banks say there is no way a bank will lend to a start-up, mail-order, gluten-free, organic blueberry muffin business, at least not right now. Stacy’s detailed financial statements show that her company has excellent financial prospects, but still no bank will lend to her. You would consider lending to her, but you don’t have the money to spare right now. What could Stacy do to persuade a bank to lend the money?

Define and discuss the roles of the case manager in Assessment, Planning, Facilitation and Advocacy.

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Case Management in Nursing

Define and discuss the roles of the case manager in Assessment, Planning, Facilitation and Advocacy.

Explore brainstorm activities that may be appropriate for caregivers to do with newborns, infants, and toddlers to help stimulate their cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.

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Brainstorm activities

Explore the Baby center website
Brainstorm activities that may be appropriate for caregivers to do with newborns, infants, and toddlers to help stimulate their cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.

Use the activities you brainstormed to create a booklet containing 1 activity for each of the following developmental categories:
• Social development
• Emotional development
• Physical development
• Cognitive development

Discuss the current opportunities or lack of well-being through the aging process and then project older adult well-being 30 years in future considering policy, technology and life-space.

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Gerontology

Policy, aging affects all – how do you want to see your future? Imagine that it is 30-40 years in the future, and you are facing your aging process – what will that look like? Reflecting on Chapters 12 and 13 that address the well-being of older adults through policy, technology. Discuss the current opportunities or lack of well-being through the aging process and then project older adult well-being 30 years in future considering policy, technology and life-space. Tie all concepts together in your narrative being helped by Chapters 12 and 13 readings, your life experience, and your research (use 2 outside resources).

Are young adults aware of the ways to prevent sun damage and its potentially fatal effects?

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PEER EVALUATION

Background In the U.S., more than 9,500 people are diagnosed with skin cancer every day and more than 2 people die of skin cancer in the U.S. every hour (Yale Medicine, 2022). Significant studies have shown that skin cancer is related to cumulative sun exposure. Skin cancer is now one of the most common cancers in the U.S. and is caused by cumulative sun exposure throughout one’s lifetime. The occurrence of major sun damage during adolescence is increasing due to social trends. Many people, especially young adults, go out into the sun looking to get an optimal tan and glow. However, without sun protection such as sunscreen and appropriate shade, they can easily become sun-damaged. Sun damage occurs when the ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun hits unprotected skin. Many young adults do not understand that sun damage does not necessarily equate to a sunburn. Even without a sunburn, the sun can prematurely age the skin and eventually lead to precancerous skin lesions and ultimately skin cancer such as basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. As many skin cancers are preventable, it is important to raise awareness and educate young adults on the importance of sun protection.
Purpose/Aim/Hypothesis Nowadays, there are an increasing number of young adults who are unaware of how sun damage may cause premalignant skin lesions. The aim of this study is to survey the knowledge of young adults regarding sun exposure. With proper education, it is possible to help raise awareness of sun damage amongst young adults to prevent sun damage.

Research Question: Are young adults aware of the ways to prevent sun damage and its potentially fatal effects?

Literature review
As the incidence of skin cancer has increased over the last few years, many studies have been completed to show the importance of sun damage awareness and education. In a study by Yurtseven et al. (2012), a similar study was conducted to raise sun damage awareness among health services vocational school students. A questionnaire was used in order to evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among the sample of 414 students. As prolonged UV radiation is known to have dire consequences to skin health, it was noted the importance of raising awareness for vocational school students. The results showed that many young adults from age 18-to 30 favored having a tanned complexion and that the rates of skin cancers are becoming more frequent. The research by Yurtseven et al. (2012) is favorable to help prove how the rates of skin cancers are increasing, especially due to the trends of young adults and their desire to having a tan. The total sample size is significant enough to collect a sizeable amount of data to compare and analyze. As rates of skin cancer are increasing, it is imperative to modify the education revolving around the harmful effects of prolonged sun exposure to protect the future of young adults. Similarly, Sultana (2020), conducted similar research in regard to sun awareness and sun protection practices. Sultana also mentions that skin cancer rates have increased over the past few years, especially due to exposure of UV radiation. A questionnaire was used to assess sun protection practices in Saudi Arabia and Kingdom of Bahrain. In the setting of a very hot and sun-exposed climate, a total of 830 responses were collected. The majority of participants reported that they avoid sun exposure during peak hours and not using sunscreen. Research from the study shows that use of sunscreen, “is strongly associated with the presence of skin problems, [tendency to tan or sunburn], taking medication for any disease, and family history of sun-related skin disease” (Sultana, 2020). Overall, the study showed that the participants did not have adequate understanding of the harmful effects of UV exposure as it showed through their daily practice of sun protection. Ina study by Robinson et al. (2021), young adults were assessed using a UV dosimeter and a smartphone app throughout a period of 28 days. All patients had sun-sensitive skin and were provided with a UV Guard sun protection system. Although the protection system was used, the areas most commonly sunburnt after the study were the face, among 12 other body locations.

What are some major problems with implementing the ideas of a human service model of employee supervision in criminal justice organizations? How do you think employees would react to such a supervision model?

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Employee supervision in criminal justice organizations

What are some major problems with implementing the ideas of a human service model of employee supervision in criminal justice organizations? How do you think employees would react to such a supervision model?