Q1. Using the understanding of osmosis, describe why putting salt on a pork chop before cooking it on a grill is likely to result in a dry, tough piece of meat? Q2. What are the benefits of transitioning from a haploid dominant organism to a diploid dominant organism in terms […]

Q1. In peaches, homozygous condition GoGo produces oval glands at the base of the leaves, the heterozygous genotype GoGa produces round glands, and the homozygous condition GaGa results in an absence of glands. At another locus, a dominant allele S produces fuzzy peach skin and its recessive allele s produces […]

Recent experiments in a lab have focused on trying to understand cellular mechanisms that underlie epilepsy. Many of the studies involve recording electrical activity in neurons from brains of adult fruit flies (Drosophila). Brains in all animals are made up of a collection of highly specialized cells surrounded by fluid. […]

Details: Explore the World Fact Book page of Central Intelligence Agency website at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/. Select two countries from among those represented on the global map on the webpage. Hovering over the map with your computer’s mouse will highlight the countries represented, but you may also type the country’s name in […]