Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-2 Your Cousin Louie Is Planning

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Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-2 Your cousin Louie is planning to create a Web site to promote his interest in genealogy and to connect with distant cousins in the same family lines. He asks for your advice in planning the Web site's design. Louie is impressed by hidden rollover links at other sites and wants to use them at his site. You tell him ____.

• A) to go ahead with his plan; hidden links add fun and excitement to a site
• B) that you love to create hidden links and will show him how to do it
• C) to first consider the effect of hidden links on his site's accessibility and usability
• D) that people looking for information on the Web typically love dealing with hidden links

Understand the mechanism and implications of dosage compensation and X-chromosome inactivation.

Explain the significance of Mendel's observations and principles in the context of dominant and recessive alleles and independent assortment.

Discuss the nature vs. nurture debate concerning the influence of pleiotropic genes on human characteristics.

Calculate probabilities of genotypic and phenotypic outcomes in genetics problems.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Wishes

Desires and thoughts that reside in the unconscious mind, influencing behavior and feelings without one's awareness.

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for studying animal behavior through operant conditioning.

Operant Chamber

A laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior through operant conditioning, typically involving stimuli and levers for animals to manipulate in order to receive a reward.

Isolates an Animal

The process of segregating an animal from others for experimental, health, or social reasons.