Word: pease
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendel concluded that the reproductive cells of peas contain factors (now called genes) of two kinds: dominant and recessive. The gene for red-floweredness is dominant; the gene for white-floweredness is recessive. When red-and white-flowered plants are mated, the seeds produced get both genes, but the dominant...
Monk & Peas. Genetics got its recognizable start, along with relativity, quantum theory and nuclear physics, during the scientific revolution of the early 1900s, but it had a strange, unpublicized start more than 40 years earlier when Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk and natural-history teacher in Brünn (now...
For a weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with...
James Sexton never forgot his relatives. When he died at 74 early this month, he left a dollar-packed will. To his favorite Cleburne restaurant owner, Bessie Richardson (specialty: black-eyed peas), he left $1,000, and to his attorney he willed $10,000. The rest of his estate went...
Let Them Eat Cake. In London, after Eileen Childs was awarded $13,160 when she testified that her injuries in a road accident made her forget how to cook, that she had been forced to serve canned beans and peas for nearly a year, unable to cook her husband'...