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Discuss in one to two paragraphs specific foods that influenced the levels of the nutrient/nutrient group, and discuss at least three dietary strategies to maintain or improve intake of nutrient/nutrient group.

Diet  Analysis  Project     Step 1. Screen Diet Complete a 24-hour recall and Food Group Count List every food and beverage that you’ve eaten over the past 24 hours. Count the number of servings of each food group provided by the foods that you listed. (A sample recall form can be found in the […]

What are the implications and consequences of this research?

Introduction to the Activity: Careful scrutiny and constructive criticism are an integral part of the scientific process. Publishing a research paper in a peer-reviewed journal is just one of many steps in the process of scientific inquiry. Students, however, commonly perceive the publication of a scientific research article as the end of scientific inquiry. On […]

Evolutionary Change and Natural Selection

Evolutionary Change and Natural Selection – Introduction Evolution is descent with modification and includes small-scale evolutionary change (microevolution) as measured by changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next and large-scale evolutionary (macroevolution) change as evidenced by speciation events. Several mechanisms contribute to evolutionary change, such as natural selection, a […]