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The student would conduct an emulsification test. First of all, crush the sample to increase is surface area. Next add the sample to a test tube of ethanol, allowing  for he sample to disolve before addin...

Alleles are different forms of a gene which can become mutated to cause different characteristics or diseases. They can be dominant (usually denonimated by a captial letter H) or recessive (usually denomi...

Despite animal cells all having a nucleus (for genetic information storage and reproduction), a cytoplasm (for structure), mitochondria (for aerobic respiration), ribosomes (for protein synthesis) and a c...

A mutation arises in an individual that confers a selective advantage.  The phenotype the mutation produces is selected for by natural selection and so the individual survives to reproductive age.  This m...

Plant cells possess a membrane bound nucleus that acts as the control centre of a cell.  They also possess a vacuole which controls water balance in the cell.  The chloroplasts are the site of photosynthe...