Martha Administered a Survey About Child Abuse to 2000 Anonymous

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Multiple Choice

Martha administered a survey about child abuse to 2000 anonymous new parents and found no reports of a parent exhibiting this type of behaviour.Knowing the number of incidences of child abuse reported each year,Martha suspected that some type of bias attributed to the erroneous results.Which type of bias most likely affected this study?

• A) researcher bias
• B) participant bias
• C) sampling bias
• D) experimental bias

Identify examples of convergent evolution and understand its significance in evolutionary biology.

Use phylogenetic trees to infer evolutionary relationships and to interpret evolutionary events such as homoplasy.

Explain the concept and application of molecular clocks in dating evolutionary divergences.

Understand the structure of taxonomic classifications from species to phyla.

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