Answer: 240 million
Suppose the mutation rate per nucleotide in a type of fly is about 10 in a billion, that there are 300 million nucleotides in the haploid genome, and that the population size is 40 million. In this case, in every generation about <u>240 million</u> new mutations will appear in each individual on average.
COMPLETE QUESTION:
A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results:
Group of answer choices
(a) support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
(b) contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
(c) support the word frequency effect
(d) contradict the word frequency effect
ANSWER: SUPPORT THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS.
EXPLANATION:
SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS is also referred to as the “linguistic determinism hypothesis”.
The hypothesis stated that language and it's structure directly influence or limit the knowledge and thinking capacities of it speakers.
Thus, the experiments underwent by the psycholinguist support SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS, since the two group of participants described the same bands of color seen in the rainbow, because their language incorporate the primary color words.
I’m pretty sure the answer is c
Gender differences in the prevalence of many personality disorders (i.e., borderline for women, antisocial for men) may be due to <em>established gender</em> <em>roles</em>. Nowadays there is a growing awareness of the importance of gender in medical treatment and research. There are traits in personality disorders that can be associated with femininity/masculinity. It means that if you are born a woman you may be more predestined to develop the type of personality disorders that manifest themselves in women ( borderline, dependent ) versus being born a man and show traits of disorders associated to the masculine gender (antisocial, narcissistic).
