When seeing her preterm infant in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first time, a mother exclaims, "my baby is so little! how will i ever be able to take care of it? " what does the nurse explain to the mother?

Some plants rely on the wind to reproduce an example is it’s important for plants to use the forces of nature to reproduce because 1. 1a white tuft of dandelion seeds 2a spiked burrs surrounding seeds 3a hard shell on a walnut? 2. 1b require pollination to reproduce 2b reproduce only asexually 3b cannot move about freely?

The asian shore crab (hemigrapsus sanguineus) is an invasive species that has impacted the atlantic coast. predict what characteristic of this invader would most likely disrupt the biodiversity of this area.

Coat color in cats is determined by genes at several different loci. at one locus on the x chromosome, one allele (x ) encodes black fur and another allele (xo) encodes orange fur. females can be black (x x ), orange (xoxo), or a mixture of orange and black called tortoiseshell (x xo). males are either black (x y) or orange (xoy). bill has a female tortoiseshell cat named patches. one night, patches escapes from bill\'s house, spends the night out, and mates with a stray male. patches later gives birth to the following kittens: one orange male, one black male, two tortoiseshell females, and one orange female. what are the genotypes of patches, the stray male, and the kittens?