In this class you will have a set of assignments that need to be submitted for each module/Chapter. This setting provides you with the structure to manage your time and be on schedule. The due date of the first set of assignments  for chapter 1 which includes Samrtbook Chapter 1 Assignment and Chapter 1 assessment is: (hint: check the Canvas Calendar)

Which of the following is correct regarding your lecture exam 1:”It’s listed in your syllabus”

Which of the following is an adaptation in icefish for getting oxygen to tissues? Mark all that apply.

Warm water fish do not have AFGPs in their blood.

In 1953, Johan Rund traveled South Georgia Island in the Southern Ocean on a whale-marking expedition. It was there he finally got to see and examine fresh icefish. When he drew blood from them, he noticed that the blood was:

The antifreeze glycoprotein is coded from by a gene. What ancestral gene, altered by mutations and natural selection, explains the origin of the AFGP gene?

Notothenioids are an odd case in nature. They have ditched two oxygen-carrying proteins (hemoglobin and myoglobin) that have been around 500 million years and they appear to be doing just fine. They really burned their bridges. They may have painted themselves in an evolutionary corner. What are their chances of survival if the Southern Ocean warms?

Name the molecule indicated. It prevents notothenioids from freezing solid in the Antarctica ocean.  

What food source, sometimes called liquid meat, consists of mainly protein and water, is packed with iron, vitamin D, and other nutrients, and makes up to 11% of a vertebrate animal’s body?

The University of Illinois team, Chi-Hing Cheng, Arthur DeVries, and Liangbao Chen, discovered the ancestral gene for __________ in notothenioids.