As part of your independent study in field biology, you are sent to a small, inland sea. In one of your samples, you discover a small eel-like creature. It has a stiff, rod-shaped structure running the length of its dorsal side, with a line of nervous tissue running along with it. You would begin the process of classifying this organism by placing it in phylum:

45 points how are people today being protected from tsunamis? earthquake data is analyzed to detemrine if a tsunami is likely, and if so, warnings are sent out. areas in tsunami risk zones are no longer heavily populated. radar is used to measure wave heights regularly. meteorologists study the winds to determine if wave heights will be large.

*a mastectomy is the surgical removal of one or both breasts, either partially of fully. an oophorectomy is the surgical removal of an ovary or ovaries. analyze a woman’s risk of dying of cancer if she carries a mutated brc1 gene. how do heredity and inheritance relate to the data presented in these charts? what data would you need to see in order to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of preventive surgeries? what does the age at diagnosis tell you about the mutation? explain how breast-cancer genes are still present in the population, despite cancer-related surgeries and deaths.

1. beginning with all chambers of the heart in the "relaxed" phase, describe the cardiac cycle in mammals, with systole and diastole of the atria and ventricles. for each time point in the cycle you select, state the following: • whether the atria and ventricles are contracting or relaxing • whether the av valves and semilunar valves are closed or open • whether the pressure in the atria and ventricles is high or low