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Genetic fingerprinting is a technique that utilises the presence of highly repetitive non-coding DNA sequences in the human genome, known as variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs). These vary considerably...

There are three different physical state configurations of a substance, solid, liquid and gas. The different states are caused by the arrangement and movement of the particles that make up that substance....

In order to differentiate this expression, we need to use implicit differentiation. An expression in the form y = f(x), where f(x) means "a function of x", is called an explicit equation and nee...

Weight is the product of an object's mass and the dominant gravitational field that it feels. On Earth, objects feel a gravitational acceleration which is dependent on the mass of the earth and its rotati...

The Earth is on a tilted axis, a full rotation takes 24 hours and this is our day length. As well as spinning on its axis, the Earth also orbits the Sun. This orbit takes 365 days to complete, but it's th...