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    Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits, and Fruit Flies      The basic foundation of modern genetics was led by Gregor Mendel (Corcos, 1993). Mendel was not the first to experiment with heredity, and our Lyman Briggs biology class will not be the last to deal with genetics. Genetics is the science of heredity. In our lab, we had three main objectives. First, we evaluated our data on monohybrid and dihybrid corn cross seed counts

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    health practitioners went far enough to diagnose it as a mental illness up until 1973. Society believed that people who were attracted physically or romantically to the same sex and even both sexes had something wrong with them. Various reasons such as homosexuality being a sin and the inability to reproduce with the same sex was reason enough to put it into the category of mental illness. It was only socially acceptable for a woman and a man to be in a relationship. This is something that has puzzled

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    A pattern emerges where the scholarly literature exploring this topic is largely focused on males. Reason being is that it appears that males are the sex who are predominantly homosexual in their orientation (LeVay & Baldwin, 2012). However, the sensitivity within the discourse of sexual orientation arises when it is debated upon whether one 's sexual preference is innate at birth, hence a force of nature

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    Status of Women in India

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    survive. Sex-ratio (number of female per 1,000 male) is an important indicator of women 's status in the society. In 1901 there were 972 females per 1,000 males, while by 1971; the ratio has come down to 930 females per 1,000 males. In 1981 there has been only a nominal increase in the female sex ratio within 934 females to 1,000 males. There were only 926 females per 1000 males in India according to 1991 census. | The 2001 census indicate that the trend has been slightly arrested with the sex ratio

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    Fruit Fly Lab Report

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    contained white eyed flies, and test tube four contained vestigial fruit flies. The group used fly nap (fly anesthetic) to make the flies lose consciousness in order to properly count them and determine the sex of the flies. This determination was mainly so the group could easily spot the sex and traits of the flies for later steps. This was done to all four tubes of the P generation, all of the adult females were placed disposed of roughly 30 males from the wild type were kept in a separate jar

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    that females with a waist to hip ratio of 0.7 are most desirable by males. Carey states that female waist to hip ratios in between 0.67 to 1.18 are attractive to males. A waist to hip ratio of 0.7 means that the waist is narrower than the hips. Likewise, females are attracted to males with a waist to hip ratio in between 0.8 to 1.0. The reason for human attractiveness to particular waist to hip ratios are due to the underlying health benefits. Human waist to hip ratio is relative to the distribution

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    China 's One Child Policy

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    aim was to reduce poverty and to improve overall quality of life for the people. China’s one-child policy has led to unintended and negative consequences, such as a diminishing labor force, an aging population, the neglect of basic human rights, and an unbalanced sex ratio gender population. To improve China’s situation, the policy should be reversed. Twenty-five years after it was launched, China’s one child population control policy is credited with cutting down the population growth to an all-time

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    Familiarity Principle

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    phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them (Zajonc, 2001). In a recent experiment/study by ________ (___), it was found that __________________, indicating that that the likelihood of human relationships increased significantly after close contact. ______ participants ranked __________. ________% of ________had lifelong partners or were married to people whom they interacted closely with. This observation can be supported and informed

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    Female Foeticide

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    men and women is leading to many crimes such as illegal trafficking of women, sexual assaults, polygamy and dehumanization of society. In fact, shortage of women in Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat states have escalated forced abduction and kidnap of girls, sex slavery, cruel flesh market, bride bazaars, forced polyandry (Panchali system, Modern Draupadis), swap marriages, sale of wives, gang rape and child-prostitution. Preventive Measures:  Strict law enforcement against Dowry: Dowry should be banned

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    The purpose of this study is to aid families of patients and other research projects with colorblindness. The data for this study can be accumulated quite easily. Firstly, the genotypes and phenotypes of carriers and affected humans are to be compared to determine the pattern of inheritance. Doing so, it will come to your attention that colorblindness is a genetic condition where it is inherited from the mother. Also, another important result is that red green colorblindness is more common in men

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