Short term memory can also be called primary or active memory. It is the capacity which an individual has to hold a small amount of information in an active and readily available state for a short amount of time. Short term memory can hold about seven (7) items for not more than 20-30 seconds at a time.
in this situation a brief review of the material for the quiz will be considered as short term memory as there was no good amount of time for study.
10^{-8} mutations per nucleotide. If there are 100 million nucleotides per haploid genome, there are 200 million nucletides per diploid genome. Six mutations divided by 200 million is 10^{-8}.
