Much like seedless watermelons, bananas that we typically bu…
Much like seedless watermelons, bananas that we typically buy in the grocery store are triploid and therefore seedless (the image below shows a normal, grocery store banana on the left and a wild banana on the right with very prominent seeds). The tiny brown structures in grocery store bananas are immature seeds that are not viable and never fully develop. What makes grocery store bananas seedless? banana.jpg
Read DetailsOne version of the BRCA gene codes for a normal version of t…
One version of the BRCA gene codes for a normal version of the BRCA protein (which helps to repair damaged DNA). Another version of the BRCA gene codes for a mutated version of the BRCA protein (which can be implicated in breast cancer). These alternate versions of the BRCA gene are examples of:
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