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The Stanford Prison Experiment is arguably one of the more famous psychological experiments of the past several decades. Discussed in most introductory psychology textbooks, this experiment evaluated the psychology of prison life. Though psychologists intended for the experiment to last two weeks, it had to be called off early, because […]

Suppose you are a director of a ballet theater. After reading a book about the cell cycle, you are intrigued by the similarity between your night show and the cell cycle. Each night the theater fills, the lights go out, the curtain rises, the dancers perform, the curtain falls, the […]

Question: Red flowers are dominant over white flowers. The flower color gene is represented with R/r. Large leafs are dominant over small leaves. The leaf size gene is represented L/l.You cross a plant with red flowers and small leaves with a plant with white flowers and small leaves.50% of the F1 […]

Two types of signals have been implicated in metaphase checkpoint arrest. Consider the results of a recent experiment in which the unattached kinetochore of a monoattached chromosome was destroyed by a laser beam. It was found in this study that, following destruction of the kinetochore, the cell entered anaphase even […]