Treatment for sleep apnea includes: -correct answersair machine or air mask that delivers
oxygen
According to the reading, sleep apnea is thought to be a tradeoff with what human feature? -
correct answersComplex language
What are the long-term health consequences of sleep apnea? -correct answersHypertension
Demen a
Kidney Disease
What are the three components of natural selec on? -correct answersVaria on
Inheritance
Differen al Reproduc ve Success
Natural selec on acts upon _____________ -correct answersPhenotypes
True/False: Development of a phenotype depends on the genotype AND environment. -correct
answersTrue
,The formal defini on of fitness in evolu onary biology is: -correct answersReproduc ve success
of an individual who has that trait rela ve to other members of the popula on
What is an adapta on? -correct answersInherited trait that makes a organism more fit and the
result of natural selec on
What is the Law of Segrega on? -correct answersEach individual has two gene copies at each
locus, and these copies segregate during gamete produc on, so that only one copy goes into
each gamete
What is the Law of Independent Assortment? -correct answersWhich allele is passed down to
the next genera on at one locus is independent of which allele is passed down to the next
genera on at another locus
What is the role of RNA polymerase? -correct answersUnwinds the DNA
Which of the four purines are transi ons? -correct answersAdenine and Guanine
Cytosine and Thymine
How many states passed eugenics-steriliza on laws in the twen eth century? -correct
answers32
In what years were 148 female prisoners in California sterilized without informed consent? -
correct answers2006-2010
Are all muta ons bad? -correct answersNo, some lead to traits that are adapta ons (helpful in a
par cular environment)
,Across 7 billion people, how many muta ons are expected to observe at each 6 billion individual
posi ons in the genome? -correct answers89
How many individuals did Friend and Schadt sequence? -correct answers590,000
How many more individuals would Friend and Schadt like to sequence in search of "gene c
superheroes"? -correct answersAs many as possible
What is the life history theory? -correct answersA framework for understanding how organisms
make psychological and behavioral decisions through tradeoffs
Life history theory makes predic ons about the behavior itself and makes no assump ons
about: -correct answersWhether decisions are made consciously or unconsciously
In Bolivia, children with elevated C-reac ve Protein (CRP) -correct answersDo not gain height as
rapidly over a three month period than those children with low-normal CRP
What is Darwinian Medicine? -correct answersA field that tries to understand why natural
selec on has le the body vulnerable to disease
In an bio c resistant bacteria, bacteria: -correct answersEvolve
What is bilirubin? -correct answersA toxic byproduct of breaking down hemoglobin that is also
an an oxidant
What is innate immunity? -correct answersFirst responders
Rapid
Non-specific
, What is adap ve immunity? -correct answersAn gen dependent
Specific
With memory
What is a regulatory T cell? -correct answersA cell that suppresses and limits immune func on
What an bodies are produced by B cells? -correct answersIgA
IgD
IgE
IgG
IgM
What age is it recommended that you start giving your child peanuts: -correct answers6 months
Bri sh children are how many mes more likely to have peanut allergies than Israeli children? -
correct answers10 mes
What is the hygiene hypothesis? -correct answersA hypothesis that contends that autoimmune
disease are more common in developed world where the prevalence of an bio cs and
an bacterial reduce child exposure to microbes
What is CXCL16? -correct answersA signaling protein associated with inflamma on and iNKT
cells in mice
Germ free mice had more __________ and developed more ___________ -correct answersiNKT
cells