You are assessing a 72-year-old man with abdominal pain. the patient is sitting in a chair; he is conscious, alert, and calm. as you are talking to the patient, your partner discreetly directs our attention to a handgun, which is located on a nearby table. you should:

What is the name for a substance formed in a chemical reaction

Female luna moths (actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. a male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecules and fly toward their source. the sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the comblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. what predictions does your hypothesis make? design an experiment to test one of these predictions.

What is the process by which biological parents pass traits such as hair type or eye color to their children