Handedness

The chinese use this fruit called "lo han guo" which I guess is safe since we've been using it for thousands of years. I think left-handedness of regular chemicals doesn't necessarily make it safe. For example, thalidomide the commonly used drug for morning sickness also causes birth ...

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I have a question about how to set up a trihybrid cross. the information is: A woman who is heterozygous for right handedness, has blue eyes, and heterozygous for freckles marries a man who is heterozygous for right handedness, green eyes, and freckles. They come to you as a genetic ...

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well it is known that left handedness is a recessive gene and so if your parents are both right handed for one of their children to be left handed the parents must be heterozygous right handers. Therefore crossing two heterozygous right ...

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There is a theory, concerning brain damage being a possible causal factor in some types of schizophrenia, where left handedness is also implicated. The thinking is that the left side of the brain is damaged, (by cerebral anoxia, e.g., around the time of birth), leading to this illness, ...

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... He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain. In Britain, around 13% of men and 11% of women are now left-handed, compared ...

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