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Genetics Review and test/quiz for SBI3U

Factual and to the point information on the Genetics unit for SBI3U, and a quiz is given at the end. Resources, external links, also are available.

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The U.S. Secret Virus Program

Eleven years ago, Boyd Graves a lawyer and 1975 graduate of the US Naval Academy discovered he was HIV AIDS positive. Rather than lay down and accept it as a...

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The concept of Genetic Polymorphism

Many loci are characterized by a number of relatively common alleles that allow members of a naturally occurring population to be categorized into sharply distinct phenotypes. Genetic polymorphism is defined...

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Cystic Fibrosis: What causes it?

What causes Cystic Fibrosis? The answer is a genetic mutation in a specific gene in which the amino acid sequence differs from the typical sequence of normal channel protein.

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Reaction to The Orchid Theory

David Dobbs in the article Orchid children, published in Atlantic Monthly, December of 2009, makes the case that the vulnerability hypothesis is incomplete. This missing portion is the possibility that the...

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Basic Ball Python Genetics

Remember back in high school biology when you were studying genetics using pea plants to determine what colors their flowers could be? Did your eyes glaze over? Did you ever think that you would use any type...

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Why Have Sex?

      A dumb question, you may think: sex has all sorts of uses, not least the procreation of life. Remember, however, that the first living things were unicellular, almost certainly reproducing a...

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