Essays on Green Corn

1. The alleles we inherit from our parents get expressed as outward traits. For almost all traits, one allele will be expressed and the other will not. If one of your alleles is dominant, its trait will be expressed. If both alleles are recessive, their trait will be expressed. Each of the traits in the table below follows a simple dominant/recessive system. For each trait, circle whether you have a dominant or recessive trait.

Trait Dominant Recessive

When a diploid organism (remember, carries two alleles for each gene!) has two of the same allele, we call it homozygous. When it has two different alleles, we ...

The Nation -

The Seminole tribe is the product of an ethno-cultural blending of the Creek peoples from the lower-central Southeast with indigenous Floridian tribes such as the Choctaw, Timuquan and Apalachicolas, some of whom were part of the Muschogean culture. The meaning of the word “Seminole” has been interpreted, loosely, as “runaway” or “broken off” (McReynolds 1957, 12). This refers to the separation of the Lower Creek peoples from the larger tribe, as described by an 18th-century observer. “Runaway,” reported historian Wiley Thompson, was “applicable to all the Indians in the Territory of Florida as all of them ran awayfrom the ...

First and foremost the original inhabitants of America before the invasion by other people were the Native Americans. They are an indigenous people whose culture and religion was sacred to them. However they have been thought of as savages, violent and stubborn people due to the stories that have been told to us. Secondly the true thanks giving story dates back to 1614; some English explorers sailing to England and aboard the ship were Indians captured for slavery left behind small pox. The disease swept a whole population of escaped slaves; on arrival at the Massachusetts Bay the pilgrims ...