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Population Genetics: The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium 960 640 Teaching Staff

Population Genetics: The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a model that proposes allele (variations of a gene) and genotype (genetic makeup) frequencies within a population remain constant when the population is in equilibrium. If in equilibrium, were are able to calculate the allele and genotype frequencies for these populations. For a population to be defined as being in “Hardy-Weinberg…

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Extracting Information From the Periodic Table 1270 748 Teaching Staff

Extracting Information From the Periodic Table

Chemistry isn’t restricted to things that happen in the lab. In fact, everything on this planet is made up of atoms – the same 118 (or more) elements that are found on the periodic table. Your first encounter with the periodic table can be quite daunting at first, in fact most students find it quite…

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions 2000 1520 Teaching Staff

Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Fractions are a very important part of math, and the first step to becoming comfortable with fractions is learning how to add and subtract them. Learning how to use fractions can seem intimidating at first, but with practice, fractions will start to seem easier and easier.                  …

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Le Passé Composé: IR, ER, RE 1600 1066 Teaching Staff

Le Passé Composé: IR, ER, RE

There are three main parts to the past tense in French. The following formula represents these three parts: Le sujet + L’auxiliaire + Le participe passé Le Sujet When you compose a sentence, a subject is usually included. The subject is the person(s) and/or thing that is performing the action/verb. In French, these are the common…

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Mitosis: From a Mother to Twins 800 512 Teaching Staff

Mitosis: From a Mother to Twins

Mitosis is a form of cell division that allows a mother cell to give rise to two daughter cells. The daughter cells are genetically identical to each other and to the mother cell. Mitosis involves nuclear division, where the duplicated DNA in the mother cell splits into two identical sets of chromosomes (one set for…

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Solving a System of Equations: Substitution and Elimination 794 629 Teaching Staff

Solving a System of Equations: Substitution and Elimination

When dealing with a system of linear equations there are two methods to algebraically solve the question. One is substitution and the other is elimination which is meant to be a shortcut. Both methods will bring you to the same solution but with more practice, you will recognize patterns and see which method would work…

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Exceptional Verbs in French: Stem-Changing Verbs 800 533 Teaching Staff

Exceptional Verbs in French: Stem-Changing Verbs

In the French language, there are several exceptions to look out for for when conjugating verbs and one of these exceptions include stem-changing verbs. Stem-changing verbs have two different stems/radicals when conjugated to the present form. Stem-changing verbs utilize the same endings as the regular -er verbs in the present form, however the stem varies…

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Balancing Chemical Equations 2329 1287 Teaching Staff

Balancing Chemical Equations

Often in chemistry chemical reactions are written in an equation form using chemical symbols. The reactants of the chemical reactants are placed on the left hand side of the reaction and the products of the reaction are placed on the right hand side of the equation. The 2 sides of the equation is then connected…

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A Basic Overview of the 4 Types of Human Tissue 1070 1135 Teaching Staff

A Basic Overview of the 4 Types of Human Tissue

In order for us to complete are daily actions, we need our body to function as a whole. The body does this by having organs work together for different purposes. Our organs are made up of many tissues (sheets of cells) connected together to serve different purposes, to execute actions inside our body and help…

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Climate Change 711 350 Teaching Staff

Climate Change

Climate Change (or global warming) is the increase of the Earth’s global temperature. In the last century, it has been noted that the Earth temperature has increased by 1 degree Celsius. This number may not be very large; however, it has huge impacts on the wildlife and humans all around the world. What is causing…

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