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Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...adult. The life cycle shown in Figure 4.1 depicts all of the stages that a human must go through from conception through birth to reach adulthood. One consequence of fertilization can be examined by following the behaviour of the sex chromosomes. We can do this by returning to Figure 4.1, the top part of which we considered earlier. Figure 4.2 is a mating diagram, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...adults are thought to carry it in their gut. It rarely causes disease unless the natural population of microbes in the gut has been disturbed, such as during the administering of antibiotics, which kill off many of the natural gut microbes. In this case, C. difficile can multiply uncontrollably and release its toxins causing toxic shock syndrome (TSS), with a range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...adults [and] makes them very cross and that's funny. But there's also a pleasure in messiness and dirtiness, again referring back to my own profession, I always thought one of the greatest 20th Century British cartoonists was Ralph Steadman because he's so messy. You get other cartoonists who do nice neat lines, Ralph just tears the page to pieces, blots all over the...
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Article 30 mins
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...adults all chatting amongst each other] Figure 2 Social psychology considers how people interact with others At the centre of social psychological research is the interaction between the influence of wider social factors that shape how we understand the social world (i.e. group dynamics, situational pressures and so on), and the cognitive processes through which we...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...adult and psychotherapist, I can see how these situations contribute to post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) where the nervous system remains prepared for attack in the hope of survival. This type of PTSD falls into the category of complex PTSD where trauma takes place in a variety of ways and is experienced over a long period of time, often commencing in early...
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Article 5 mins
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...adults, it's things as varied as cholesterol levels, blood pressure. There's all sorts of ways in which we measure health and wellbeing. And I think in some ways we could become quite fixated on that. HELEN KING We've certainly got lots of equipment to measure these things. I mean, we've got the blood pressure monitor here. So take one of these home, you don't have to go...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...adult skill development. Find out more here cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Where am I starting from?:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...adult - so much so, that the description of 'little worms' for the numbat [p. 21] is understandable, though some newborns are considerably more developed, as evident from p. 28. An adult female koala might tip the scales at about 8 kilograms (kg), but the newborn koala weighs just about half a gram, i.e. 0.5 g. Just how tiny this newborn is in relation to the mother...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs