Which gender is more vulnerable to brain damage, deformity and cerebral palsy?
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Explain how patients in a vegetative state can have no damage totheir cerebral cortex and yet lack awareness of theirenvironment.
They will often reflexively respond to visual and auditorystimuli. How does this phenomenon relate to the unaffected parts oftheir brain involved in sensory input?
To the best of your ability, and based on what you have learned about brain function, describe what behaviors would most likely be affected if there was damage to each of the following:
a. The brainstem
b. The cerebellum
c. The cerebral hemispheres (there are 4 lobes, each must be addressed separately)
d. The hippocampus e. The Amygdala
Hardy Weinberg
You are studying wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. The wolves are all decedents of a single pair of wolves that crossed an ice bridge to the island during a particularly harsh winter in 1949. You notice that some of the wolves are turning up dead with what appears to be a debilitating spinal deformity. Genetic analysis reveals that a mutation, a single deleterious allele is responsible for the deformity. The allele is recessive and is usually not very prevalent in large wolf populations. You find that in the Isle Royale population, 83% of the wolves appear healthy and normal. What is the deleterious allele frequency in the Isle Royale wolf population? In a population of 12 Isle Royale wolves, how many present with the deformity and how many are carriers?