Assignment

Short Answer: Read each question carefully. Answer the question asked (and only the question asked). Anything you write down is subject to grad.mg. Write your answers out in complete thoughts and full sentences, unless otherwise directed to list or if the answer is just a single word or short phrase.

1. Give an example of a mutualism?

2. When looking at an ecological food web, what do the arrows connecting different organisms represent?

3. When looking at an ecological food web, what do the arrows connecting different organisms represent?

4. What is meant by the phrase "Correlation does not equal causation"? give an example.

5. What is the function of the kidneys?

6. Recently the DuPont Company settled a Class Action Lawsuit for $671 million in cash. The lawsuit was over a chemical leak near Parkersburg, WV. Explain what this lawsuit was about. You answer name the chemical and should touch on the details of the chemical leak, the health hazards of the chemical involved, what DuPont knew about these health risks, and the research done to demonstrate causation between the chemical and the health risks.