Word: contains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendel concluded that the reproductive cells of peas contain factors (now called genes) of two kinds: dominant and recessive. The gene for red-floweredness is dominant; the gene for white-floweredness is recessive. When red-and white-flowered plants are mated, the seeds produced get both genes, but the dominant red gene suppresses the recessive white gene. Result: red flowers in the first generation (see diagram...
...thousands of turns long and arranged by thousands in each chromosome, can carry a vast amount of coded information. They may very likely carry enough to determine whether a fertilized egg grows into a clam or an elephant. When chromosomes replicate during cell division, the DNA molecules that they contain presumably replicate...
Rendering the captive queens edible requires little culinary art. The ants are toasted in their own fat on thin clay roof tiles over a wood fire, then salted lightly. Since they contain formic acid, a natural preservative, they remain unspoiled in the markets, where they are displayed in large fiber baskets...
...book the message was clear, if not original: middle-class morality is enough to drive a man to drink. In the movie the message is sometimes hard to decode, but it seems to contain two arresting ideas: 1) Suzy Parker is a charming young actress, and 2) Gary Cooper is getting a little old (57) for love scenes...
Polls for the expanded 1958-59 Confidential Guide will be collected this evening in the College and at Radcliffe. The guide will contain reports of all freshman and many middle-group (100) courses. Students should fill out polls for all their courses below the 200-level...