You are part of a team of pediatric specialists responsible with diagnosing and treating infants and young children with birth defects. A patient presents with these symptoms: coloboma (a hole in the iris), cardiac defects, narrowing of the choana (back of the nasal passage), small stature, genital anomalies, and Mondini deformation of the cochlea. What do you suspect the patient has?

The figure to the right shows the potential energy curves for the electronic ground state and an excited state for a diatomic molecule.  The horizontal lines represent vibrational states.  The vibrational quantum numbers for the ground and excited electronic states are given by v” and v’ receptively.  According to the Frank-Condon principle, the transition from v’=0 to which lower vibrational state would have the highest probability of emission?

The term eolian refers to

The grinding and shaping of rock surfaces by the “sand blasting” action of particles captured in the air is termed

Long shore currents work with wave action to transport sediment and debris along the shore. This sediment is called ________

Material deposited in a long ridge extending out from a coast and partially blocking the mouth of a bay is called a

Which of the following is a ‘soft’ form of beach protection?  

________ biodiversity in an ecosystem leads to ________ long-term stability and productivity.

In the mid-1800s Charles Darwin introduced the theory of _________ to explain how a new species could evolve from an earlier species with different characteristics.

The zone of seasonally frozen ground that exists between the subsurface permafrost layer and the ground surface is called the