Walter Sutton discovered that chromosomes are the basis of heredity and this explained the segregation of alleles in Mendel's law of segregation. Basically alleles and chromosomes in Mendel's explanation are the same thing.
Large old-growth dominant forest trees, such as the redwoods, are part of a climax community (<span>final and permanent stage of vegetation)</span>. Such trees develop in a biome. These trees are also refers to a<span>n </span>old-growth forest<span> — also termed primary </span>forest<span>, virgin </span>forest<span>, primeval </span>forest<span>, late seral </span>forest<span>, </span>
I think the independent variable is the temperature, while the dependent variable is the size of the balloon. The factor that is held constant is the amount of air in the balloon. An identical balloon kept at the original temperature. Independent variable in an experiment is the variable that the experiment plans to change while the dependent variable is the variable whose value depends on the independent variable.