Lamarck's idea of the "inheritance of acquired traits" proposed that a. in animals, traits that are used often will grow and change shape. b. acquired traits are passed down from parent to offspring. c. in animals, traits that are not used often will shrink and change shape. d. acquired traits are not passed down from parent to offspring.

Which hotel do you think is most likely to move ahead in market competition? a. a hotel that provides basic amenitiesb. a hotel that provides luxurious amenitiesc. a hotel that shows understanding of customers' latent needsd. a hotel that gives discounts

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

2. if someone had the list of traits you provided in question 1, do you think he or she would be able to find you in a group of 1000 people? why or why not? if not, what other information encoded in your genes might distinguish you from the others in the group? what are other traits that are encoded for by dna?