"I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'" - Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride" If the six-fingered man had survived his ...

Dive into the difference between dominant and recessive genes. How could you take a piece of information and make it vanish from one generation, and then have it reappear? The only way is if the ...

But the tall allele is “dominant,” meaning that a tall-short allele combination would result in a tall plant. If two tall plants that both carried short alleles (the “recessive” version of that trait) ...

Populations live in rapidly changing environments – droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations ...

A test cross is a way to explore the genotpye of an organism. Early use of the test cross was as an experimental mating test used to determine what alleles are present in the genotype. An organism's ...