Basket-Weaving Skills Seem to Run in Andy's Family

question 64

Essay

Basket-weaving skills seem to run in Andy's family. Why shouldn't Andy conclude that his own talent is genetic?

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Definitions:

Optically Active

A property of certain compounds that have the ability to rotate the plane of polarized light, often due to the presence of chiral centers.

Ribonucleoside

A nucleoside consisting of a ribose sugar bonded to a nitrogenous base, a fundamental component of RNA.

Ribonucleotide

A nucleotide that contains ribose as its sugar component, which is a fundamental building block of RNA (ribonucleic acid).

Deoxyguanosine

A nucleoside component of DNA, consisting of the base guanine attached to a deoxyribose sugar, but lacking a phosphate group.