Boris Tezak, Florida Antlantic Unisersity PhD student, presented a summary of his thesis on the “Sea Turtle Sex Ratios in a Changing Climate”.
He is the Three Minute Thesis Championship Winner and People’s Choice Winner.
The assessment: it is possible to identify the sex of a turtle by taking a blood drop sample. (A hormone would be present in male specimens and absent in female specimens).
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