What is the purpose of mitosis and meiosis? What is the main difference between the two?
What will be an ideal response?
Mitosis and meiosis are responsible for cell division and the duplication of our genetic material from one cell to another and from one generation to another. Mitosis is cell division in most cells of the human body and results in forty-six chromosomes in each cell. Meiosis is cell division that forms the gametes each with only twenty-three chromosomes.
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c. After staring at a red object for a minute and then looking away, we see green. d. We often remember colors as being brighter than they actually were.
Devan is given a test that contains a number of statements such as "I enjoy listening to loud music" and "I am generally a cautious person.". Devan is supposed to mark "true" or "false" next to each statement. This type of test would be considered to be:
a. a projective personality test b. a self-report personality inventory c. a Rorschach test d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
If you have 15 red socks (individual, not pairs), 24 green socks, 17 blue socks, and 100 black socks, what is the probability you will reach in the drawer and randomly select a pair of green socks? (Assume sampling without replacement.)
a. 0.3022 c. 0.0228 b. 0.3077 d. 0.0227
Misbah knows that repeating her spelling words out loud and writing them down will help her learn them for the spelling test. What kind of skill is she using?
A) perspective taking B) attentive C) automatic D) metacognitive