5. Jessica is blood type A and her husband Graham is blood type O. She is worried because they are pregnant and their future child has a rare disorder which will require him to need regular blood transfusion. Jessica worries that if their son ends up with type O blood, like his father, it will be hard to get the necessary regular blood transfusions because people with O blood can only accept O blood. What is the likelihood of their child having blood type O? Use Punnett squares to show all possibilities.

the peripheral nervous system or pns contains the nerves, which leave the brain and the spinal cord and travel to certain areas of the body. the peripheral nervous system's main job is to send information gathered by the body's sensory receptors to the cns as quickly as possible.

desert perennials often survive by remaining dormant during dry periods of the year, then springing to life when water becomes available. most annual desert plants germinate only after heavy seasonal rain, then complete their reproductive cycle very quickly.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle