The article “Long Telomeres are Associated with Clonality in Wild Populations of … C. tenuispina” (Heredity 2015: 437– 443) reported the following telomere measurements for (1) a normal arm and (2) a regenerating arm of 12 Mediterranean starfish.

It is theorized that such measurements should be smaller for regenerating arms, because the above values are inversely related to telomere length and longer telomeres are associated with younger tissue. Use a nonparametric test to see if the data supports this theory at the .05 significance level.

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Normal 11.246 11.493 11.136 11.120 10.928 11.556 Regen. 11.142 11.047 11.004 11.506 11.067 10.875 Normal 11.313 11.164 10.878 12.680 11.937 11.172 Regen. 11.484 11.517 10.756 10.973 11.078 11.182