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...write the allele with the capital letter first, so the genotype of all the F1 offspring would be written as Gg. Notice that not only do all the F1 offspring have the same genotype, Gg, but that this genotype is different from that of either parent. Where the two copies of a gene are different, as in the offspring of this cross, they are said to be heterozygous (pronounced...

...Write down a few sentences on each piece of information in the box below. Comment on how the information would have been written differently if it had been written for a different audience – for example, how would the news story be rewritten for a scientific paper, and vice versa. Discussion There are many news stories, research papers and web pages on AM. Consideration...

...writing letters to each other. Mail order shopping and writing letters were made possible by innovations that were groundbreaking in their day. Compare the impact of the introduction of running water, electric lighting and indoor plumbing with some more recent innovations. As Chakrabortty (2012) comments, ‘You might love your iPhone, and I might spend too much time on...

...writing out all the different combinations, where the plants are labelled a, b, c, d, e, then the combinations are abc, abd, abe, acd, etc., but it is much quicker to use Pascal’s triangle. You just look at the entry in the sixth row and the fourth column in the triangle (remember to start counting from zero), and you will see that the answer is 10...Week 1: Chance and...

...write it as /100. So 5% is the same as 5/100. 5/100 can also be written as 0.05. A 5% increase means take the original amount ( 1x the original amount) and add 5%, or 0.05x the value, to it. That is, a 5% increase means multiply the original amount by itself (1x) and another 0.05x itself, to give 1+0.05 = 1.05 times the original amount. To see how quickly the...