Colombia has no laws providing for same-sex marriage. However, as a result of subsequent rulings by the country's Constitutional Court that started on February 2007, same-sex couples can apply for all ...
Portugal created de facto unions (uni?o de facto in legal European Portuguese) similar to common-law marriage for cohabiting opposite-sex partners in 1999, and extended these unions to same-sex coupl ...
The American Psychological Association stated in 2004:The institution of civil marriage confers a social status and important legal benefits, rights, and privileges. ... The same-sex couples are denie ...
The demographics of sexual orientation are difficult to establish due to a lack of reliable data. However, the history of human sexuality shows that attitudes and behaviour have varied across societie ...
The most familiar measure of dependence between two quantities is the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, or "Pearson's correlation coefficient", commonly called simply "the correlation co ...
From the 1940s through the 1960s, behavioralism gained support. It was the site of discussion between traditionalist and new emerging approaches to political science. The origins of behavioralism is o ...
The terms "sex differences" and "gender differences" are sometimes used interchangeably, or, more often they are incorrectly used to refer to differences in male and female behaviors that are presumed ...
A large number of neurological disorders have been described. These can affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system, the autonomic nervous system and the m ...
Main article: History of biochemistryGerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.It once was generally believed that life and its materia ...
Lineages are typically visualized as subsets of a phylogenetic tree. For example, the tree in Figure 1 shows the separation of life into three ancient lineages: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Thus ...
Barbara McClintock discovered the first TEs in maize, Zea mays, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. McClintock was experimenting with maize plants that had broken chromosomes. In the winter of 1944 ...
Main article: X-linked dominant inheritanceAn example pedigree chart of the inheritance of a sex linked disorder.Each child of a mother affected with an X-linked dominant trait has a 50% chance of inh ...
A phenotypic trait is an obvious and observable trait; it is the expression of genes in an observable way. An example of a phenotypic trait is hair color, there are underlying genes that control the h ...
A DNA transcription unit encoding for a protein may contain both a coding sequence, which will translated into the protein, and regulatory sequences, which direct and regulate the synthesis of that pr ...
A 1971 paper in the Journal of Molecular Biology by Kleppe and co-workers first described a method using an enzymatic assay to replicate a short DNA template with primers in vitro. However, this early ...
