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In the mid-19th century Gregor Mendel carried out breeding experiments on plants. He worked on the characteristics of pea plants. One of his observations was that the inheritance of each characteristic is...

A niche is the functional area within which an organism exists. This can be a specific habitat it inhabits, how it shelters itself, a food source it can exploit and can include all abiotic or biotic inter...

A plosive consonant is an abrupt sound made by closing the mouth then releasing a burst of breath. The plosive consonants in English are B, P, T and D. Their effect, especially when used repeatedly is to ...

A virus is non-living and cannot be treated by antibiotics, they do not have a cell wall. Viruses are generally smaller and require a host to survive. A bacteria can be affected by antibiotics and can sur...

Politics is the study of how people use power to organise themselves, their society and their resources. In most modern societies it refers to the affairs of a government and the people who keep it in pla...