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3 years ago

Explain why Latin is the basis for many scientific names

Biology

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Virty [35]3 years ago

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Answer:

some scientists which include Mendeleev and Neuton did published their papers and findings in Latin. but when Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus started to devise a system of classifying organisms, he also gave different phyla and species Latin names, and this was because Latin was such a universal or acceptable form of scholar language in Europe.

const2013 [10]3 years ago

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In earlier days, Latin was considered the language of the scholars. That was the reason Latin was chosen for binomial nomenclature. As scholars of all languages learned Latin, just hearing the name would give the hearer an idea of what the organism is even if (s)he had not seen it in person.

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1. What is Jane's genotype?

2. What is Paul’s genotype?

3. Where did Jane get her gene for curly hair? From her mother or father?

4. True or False: Jane's mother was heterozygous for curly hair?

5. What fraction of Paul and Jane's children should have curly hair and dimples?

6. What fraction of their children would have straight hair and no dimples?

7. What fraction should have dimples but not curly hair?

8. What is the probability of getting any offspring with dimples

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1. Genotype of Jane's mother -ddaa

2. Genotype of Paul (heterozygous for dimples and curly hair) – DdAa

3. One “a” gene from mother (whose genotype for hair was aa) and second “a”gene from father (whose genotype was Aa)

4. False. She was having straight hair

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