Parents arrive to the clinic with their 5-year-old child and inform the nurse the child has just been diagnosed with sickle cell disease. the parents ask the nurse how this could have happened and which one of them is the carrier. what is the best response by the nurse?

Agene with the original sequence of atgtt—tact underwent substitution mutation to form atatt—tact after a few generations. tact is a part of a muscle protein encoding region, and atgtt codes for a digestive enzyme. what will be the effect of this mutation? a. the production of muscle protein will be affected. b. the production of digestive enzymes will be affected. c. the production of both the protein and the enzyme will be affected. d. the production of neither the protein nor the enzyme will be affected.

According the inverse square law, doubling the distance from the source of the sound, a speaker, for example, will drop the sound 6 db each time. if you were standing in the back of an auditorium, 32 feet away from a speaker not using any amplification, would you be able to hear a speaker clearly? why or why not?

The image shows the evolution of a species of fish. a few fish from a population developed different social behaviors and evolved into different species. two fish according to the image, the fish underwent . the new species of fish had mating seasons that were different from that of the original fish. because of the differences in mating seasons, the fish underwent reproductive isolation. this mode of isolation would be .