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Characters Dominant Recessive 1. Hair Dark, Curly Light, Straight 2. Skin colour Normal Albinism 3. Eyes Brown, Large Blue, Small 4. Eyelashes Long Short 5. Colour Vision Normal Colour blindness 6. Lips Thick Thin 7. Nose Big S..

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) was a great English novelist and a very popular writer even in his time. Dickens was a keen observer of human nature. He sympathised with the poor and helpless and mocked the greedy and the cruel. As a young boy Dickens had to work in a London factory pasting the la..

Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium and polonium constitute the group 16 of the periodic table of elements. The first four elements are collectively called CHALCOGENS. The name derives from the Greek word for bronze and points to the association of sulphur and its congeners with copper. All these ..

Group 16 Elements (Chalcogens) - Introduction - Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium and polonium constitute the group 16 of the periodic table of elements. The first four elements are collectively called CHALCOGENS. The name derives from the Greek word for bronze and points to the association of s..

The play 'Mirabai', by E.L Turnbull is an extract from 'Scenes From The Life Of Saint Mirabai'. The short extract reveals the character of the great saint and composer Miraba..

Introduction - The play 'Mirabai', by E.L Turnbull is an extract from 'Scenes From The Life Of Saint Mirabai'. The short extract reveals the character of the great saint and composer Miraba..

In the initial set of experiments, Mendel concentrated only on the pattern of inheritance of a single pair of contrasting characters. This pattern of inheritance involving only one pair of contrasting characters is known as monohybrid inheritance. In the first set of experiments..

Mendel was primarily a monk in a monastery. In addition to his normal duties of preaching in the church, Mendel evinced a keen interest in the maintenance of the garden in the premises of the church. In the course of his routine rounds in the garden, Mendel was keenly observing the pattern of inher..

According to Mendel, the genotype i.e., the combination of genes or the genetic constitution is made of certain structures called factors. The factors controlled the inheritance of all traits. These factors are present in pairs. The factors are now called genes. Thus the physical basis of heredity..

. Earth's atmosphere in its present form, is evolved and even now being influenced by earth's movement on its axis as well as sunlight. These two parameters decide what type of atmosphere we have now - its composition as well as the total height of atmospheric cover around the earth. Such an atmosp..