Hamish writes down some sentences to summarize the goal of classification. which of hamish’s sentences best describes classification?
a. classification organizes organisms based on their characteristics.
b. classification organizes organism families by age and generation.
c. classification organizes organisms based on their species names.
d. classification organizes organisms by color and appearance.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a serious condition caused by a recessive allele of a gene on the human x chromosome. the patients have muscles that weaken over time because they have absent or decreased dystrophin, a muscle protein. they rarely live past their twenties. how likely is it for a woman to have this condition? a) women can never have this condition. b) one-fourth of the daughters of an affected man would have this condition. c) one-half of the daughters of an affected father and a carrier mother could have this condition. d) only if a woman is xxx could she have this condition.

Under the soviet system, the government a. controlled all forms of communication. b. allowed newspapers to print whatever they wanted. c. controlled editorials but not the reporting of news. d. encouraged access to a wide variety of news sources. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

Juan and carol were studying invertebrates in biology. they knew that segmented or earth worms preferred a dark, moist habitat. during this lab, they would be investigating the responses of organisms called planaria or dugesia tigrina. these were simple flatworms that still had a one-way digestive system and a very simple nervous system. juan and carol placed the planaria in a petri dish containing cool, distilled water that was partially covered with black paper. they shined a light on the dish. next, they removed the paper and placed a small amount of chicken liver at one end of the dish. they added a few large salt crystals to the water. finally, they added drops of hot water to the cool water in the petri dish. their results can be seen in the data table. according to their experiment, all but one conclusion is valid.