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60
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What do genotype and phenotype mean, and how are they related?
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Genetics
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61
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Water quality testing, esp using inverts
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62
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What makes the 93 Granite Falls report of deformed frogs different from the 95 findings?
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The frogs were normal again in 94 in GF, and the deformities could be attributed to a flood that year
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62-
63
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Summarize the reproductive process for leopard frogs.
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63
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What is amplexus?
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The reproductive embrace of frogs
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63
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What is the advantage and disadvantage of laying eggs in shallow pools?
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Adv: fewer predators
Dis: Dry out quickly
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63
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What is hypoxia?
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A low oxygen condition
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Photosynthesis and Respiration; DO testing
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64
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Summarize the metamorphosis of a tadpole into a frog.
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64
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Compare and contrast a frog’s skin to a cell membrane.
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64
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Make a small chart showing how the different types of frogs survive winter.
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66
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How did the Ney pond frogs survive winter?
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Hibernated on the shoreline of Mud Lake where groundwater left small pockets of open water beneath the ice.
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66
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How does the overwintering in Mud Lake complicate the issue of the deformed frogs?
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It gives another possible source of toxin contamination building up in the parent frogs’ bodies
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67
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What are chromosomes?
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76-
68
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Why do they call this an ‘animal Love Canal’?
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68
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Defend 5,000 deaths from a toxic chemical as being acceptable
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