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Weights of golden retriever dogs are normally distributed. samples of weights of golden retriever dogs, each of size nequals15, are randomly collected and the sample means are found. is it correct to conclude that the sample means cannot be treated as being from a normal distribution because the sample size is too small? explain.

Modern whales developed their traits through natural selection what occurs during the process of natural selection

Keeping in mind the life cycle of bacteriophages, consider the following problem: during the reproductive cycle of a temperate bacteriophage, the viral dna inserts into the bacterial chromosome where the resultant prophage behaves much like a trojan horse. it can remain quiescent, or it can become lytic and initiate a burst of progeny viruses. several operons maintain the prophage state by interacting with a repressor that keeps the lytic cycle in check. insults (ultraviolet light, for example) to the bacterial cell lead to a partial breakdown of the repressor, which in turn causes the production of enzymes involved in the lytic cycle. as stated in this simple form, would you consider this system of regulation to be operating under positive or negative control?