The merging of two haploid cells from different individuals to form a diploid cell is best characterized as

He wrote the parable of the cave, in this story he developed the idea of the ‘eidos’ or the perfect forms.

Sometimes, when Mendel crossed two purple-flowered pea plants with each other, he obtained a phenotypic ratio of 3:1 (purple-flowered pea plants to white-flowered pea plants). These results are consistent with which of the following sets of parents?

Daphnia (water fleas) usually reproduce asexually by cloning. What causes individuals to switch to sexual reproduction?

Mendel’s experimental design in which he grew pea plants with diverse traits included which of the following methodologies?  

Natural theologian and priest rejected a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation story.

In molecular biology’s central dogma, the copying of a DNA strand into mRNA is known as transcription, and the building of proteins using that mRNA is known as translation.

An individual whose two alleles for a given gene are identical is said to be

Female birds lay shelled eggs. Penguins are birds. Therefore penguins lay shelled eggs. What kind of reasoning is this?

Which of these sequences of nitrogenous base pairs could be found in a double-helix DNA molecule?