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Centripetal Force (m42086)
Keywords: Banked curves, Centripetal force, Ideal banking
Summary: Calculate coefficient of friction on a car tire. Calculate ideal speed and angle of a car on a turn.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 80.46%
Revised: 2012-10-15
Revisions: 6
Challenges Facing the Elderly (m42880)
Keywords: Ageism, Elder abuse, Gerontocracy, Senescence
Summary: Understand the historical and current trends of poverty among elderly populations Recognize ageist thinking and ageist attitudes in individuals and in institutions Learn about elderly individuals’ risks of being mistreated and abused
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 61.00%
Revised: 2012-05-18
Revisions: 2
Characteristics and Traits (m44478)
Keywords: allele, characteristic, codominance, dominant lethal, dominant phenotype, genetics, genotype, Gregor Mendel, hemizygous, heredity, heterozygous, homozygous, incomplete dominance, lethality, Mendel, monohybrid, monohybrid cross, multiple alleles, mutant, pedigree analysis, phenotype, polygenic inheritance, Punnett square, recessive gene, recessive lethal, sex linkage, sex-linked trait, test cross, trait, wild type, X linkage, X-linked trait
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes in dominant and recessive gene systems Develop a Punnett square to calculate the expected proportions of genotypes and phenotypes in a monohybrid cross Explain the purpose and methods of a test cross ... sex linkage
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 48.18%
Revised: 2013-04-10
Revisions: 3
Characteristics of Fungi (m44622)
Keywords: coenocytic hypha, fungi, fungi asexual reproduction, fungi cell structure, fungi characteristics, fungi growth, fungi nutrition, fungi reproduction, fungi sexual reproduction, fungus, haustoria, heterothallic, homothallic, hypha, hyphae, karyogamy, mycelium, mycologist, mycology, plasmogamy, saprobe, septum, sporangium, thallus, yeast
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: List the characteristics of fungi Describe the composition of the mycelium Describe the mode of nutrition of fungi Explain sexual and asexual reproduction in fungi
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 58.97%
Revised: 2013-04-29
Revisions: 7
Characteristics of Protists (m44616)
Keywords: mixotroph, pellicle, photoautotroph, protist, Protista, protist diversity, protist habitat, protist metabolism, protists cell structure, protists life cycle, protists motility
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe the cell structure characteristics of protists Describe the metabolic diversity of protists Describe the life cycle diversity of protists
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 56.18%
Revised: 2013-04-11
Revisions: 5
Chemical Bonds (m46000)
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 49.12%
Revised: 2013-03-22
Revisions: New
Chemical Reactions (m46004)
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 32.62%
Revised: 2013-03-22
Revisions: New
Chordates (m44685)
Keywords: amniote, Cephalochordata, Chordata, chordate, Craniata, craniate, cranium, dorsal hollow nerve cord, lancelet, notochord, pharyngeal slits, post-anal tail, tetrapod, tunicate, Urochordata, vertebral column, Vertebrata, vertebrate, vertebrates
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe the distinguishing characteristics of chordates Identify the derived character of craniates that sets them apart from other chordates Describe the developmental fate of the notochord in vertebrates
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 56.66%
Revised: 2013-04-29
Revisions: 7
Chromosomal Basis of Inherited Disorders (m44483)
Keywords: aneuploid, aneuploidy, autosomal chromosome, autosome, chromosome 18 inversion, chromosome aberration, chromosome disorder, chromosome identification, chromosome inversion, chromosome nondisjunction, chromosome number disorder, euploid, genetics, inheritance, inherited disorder, karyogram, karyotype, monosomy, nondisjunction, paracentric, pericentric, polyploid, polyploidy, sex chromosome, sex chromosomes, sex-linked disorder, sex-linked genes, translocation, trisomy, x inactivation, x-linked disorders, x-linked genes
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe how a karyogram is created Explain how nondisjunction leads to disorders in chromosome number Compare disorders caused by aneuploidy Describe how errors in chromosome structure occur through inversions and translocations
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 60.51%
Revised: 2013-04-10
Revisions: 5
Chromosomal Theory and Genetic Linkage (m44481)
Keywords: centiMorgan, chromosomal theory, chromosomal theory of inheritance, chromosome map, crossing over, crossover, gene distance, genetic linkage, genetic map, genetics, homologous recombination, inheritance, linked genes, meiosis, nonparental type, parental type, recombinant type, recombination, recombination frequency, Sutton's theory of inheritance, Thomas Hunt Morgan, three-point test cross, Walter Sutton, x-linked genes
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Discuss Sutton’s Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance Describe genetic linkage Explain the process of homologous recombination, or crossing over Describe how chromosome maps are created Calculate the distances between three genes on a chromosome using a three-point test cross
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 49.78%
Revised: 2013-04-10
Revisions: 7
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