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Mitosis is a process whereby the chromosomes (which carry the genetic information) of the cell that were duplicated during replication,to make two identical set of chromosomes, are separated into two nucl...

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid and is the basic unit of the genetic material that is housed in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells.

DNA was first visualised by Watson and Crick, who described it ...

Atheroma = Formed of a hard fibrious plaque containing fatty streaks that have hardened over time (through damage such as high blood pressure). There is a build up of cholesterol and other insolubl...

Given that the brown eyed parents are able to produce blue eyed offspring, it is safe to assume that they are both heterozygots for eye colour and that the brown allele is dominant (A) over the blue allel...