THE VICTORIA SCHOOL SANTIAGO JACOME LAB REPORT PTC BIOLOGY SL AIM: The aim of this lab is to analyze the genotype differences of classmates that are able to taste PTC‚ Thiourea and Sodium benzoate and determine the phenotypes found. Testing the ability to taste PTC has been a mainstay activity in human genetics for generations of teacher and students. The ability to taste PTC is inherited. Traditionally this is presented as a case of simple Mendelian inheritance involving a dominant allele for tasting
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Case Study: I’m Looking Over a White-Striped Clover; A Case of Natural Selection Jelena Vukadin Part 1: Minnesota Habitat: The Minnesota habitat has cold winters and fairly warm summers. They do not receive much rain which therefore results in not having many herbivores in the population (not very many plants for them to eat). North Carolina Habitat: The North Carolina habitat has mild winters and very hot summers. They receive much more rain yearly which is why they have many more herbivores in
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Recognition of Patterns of Trait Inheritance in Plant Hybridization: Pisum sativum Daylan Hartranft‚ student Bachelor of Science in Biology Key words: Pea plant‚ Monohybrid‚ Dihybrid‚ Independent assortment‚ Dominant‚ Recessive Running title: Patterns of Inheritance # Figures: 3 # Tables: 2 Correspondence to: Daylan Hartranft Introduction Plants have noticeable trait inheritance; however‚ the method of transmission is unknown. Understanding this would allow creation
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a) The characteristics that showed up most frequently were:One nose‚ pink coloured nose‚ 2 antennas‚ 6 legs‚ 2 eyes and 2 green humps were the most common characteristics. b) The Characteristics that showed up very seldom were:3 eyes‚ 2 body segments‚ blue legs‚ 1 antenna‚ a straight tail and 1 green hump. c) The following traits were found to be homozygous dominant:EE ( Eye number - 2 eyes)CC (Curly Tail)VV (Red eyes)d) The following traits were found to be heterozygous:Aa (Antenna number: 2 antennas)Mm
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Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller Maggie Johnson History 110 Professor Matthew McCabe October 3‚ 2013 In the beginning of The Cheese and the Worms‚ the readers are introduced to a miller named Domenico Scandella‚ who the narrator refers to as Menocchio. It was uncertain where Menocchio retained his knowledge‚ but it is obvious that he picked up learning how to read somewhere. No one knows for sure‚ but it is assumed that there was a school built near Menocchio’s
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Initially the fact that Gregor Samsa‚ the main character‚ has become a human-sized pest is confusing in and of itself. What caused his transformation? Why is he a human-sized pest and not a regular sized pest? Instead of thinking about his current situation along with the complications it will bring (like I was)‚ Gregor starts to think about how much he dislikes the job he has. "Gregor’s first thought upon waking up as a creature are not even related to his new physical form‚ but to his state of
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Anna Ferguson The Metamorphosis: RRJ #1 Summary: Gregor Samsa‚ a traveling salesman wakes up‚ to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. Gregor then notices his new body which includes an armor-hard back‚ multiple thin legs and a brown arched abdomen split into rigid sections. Gregors focus shifts to his room‚ and he notices a picture of a woman that he cut out of a magazine and he realizes how small the room seems. Gregor tries to go back to sleep‚ but has trouble when he realizes
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Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka‚ the main character‚ travelling salesman Gregor Samsa‚ suddenly wakes up in the form of a disgusting and monstrous bug. Gregor quickly realizes he has no control over his body. Consequently‚ Gregor begins to worry about the possibility of him not showing up to the job he hates and is only keeping to pay off his parents’ debt to his boss. Gregor’s parents and sister‚ Grete‚ become worried about Gregor not leaving for work and they try to get him out of his room. They fail
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Why Gregor Samsa Had to Die Irony as a literary element is present in just about every work of fiction‚ however‚ one is hard pressed to find a work of literature where the irony is as profound as it is in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The irony in The Metamorphosis runs rampant from the first sentence and doesn’t cease until the very end. Kafka crafts a sadistic tale about a man who although had an unconditionally loving heart‚ never learned to love himself. The most morose aspect of the story
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Hicks Tomko English 1102 Spring 2012 The Rebels of Society: Gregor Samsa and Equality 7-2521 Gregor Samsa‚ the protagonist of Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Equality 7-2521 of Ayn Rand’s Anthem both rebel against their individual societies. They are extremely different in that Gregor does not become a rebel by choice‚ while Equality comes up with a new invention and boldly goes against the social normality of his society. A successful rebel not only should be defiant against their authority‚ but
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