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First of all, it is important to define osmosis. If you have two solutions separated only by a semi-permeable membrane, and one solution is more concentrated than the other, then water will move from the ...

Different phenotypes can be generated without changes to the genotype through a process called Epigenetics. Epigenetics, meaning “above genes”, is the study of changes to the phenotype caused by changes i...

For a trait to evolve, firstly, there has to be genetic variation among individuals, which will lead to differences in phenotype and cause differences in fitness in a particular environment. These differe...

DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is responsible for storing genetic information and is composed of a chain of nucleotides. Each nucleotide is formed by a nitrogen base, a phosphate backbone and a sugar. There ...

Mitosis contains 1 division cycle, meiosis - 2. Independent assortment, synapsis and crossing over occur only in meiosis. The outcome of mitosis is 2 diploid cells, meiosis - 4 haploid cells. Mitosis prod...