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What Is Sensory Memory? Describe the Experimental Design Used by George

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What is sensory memory? Describe the experimental design used by George Sperling to measure the iconic store and summarize his results. Besides the iconic store, what is the other major sensory register and how long does it typically last compared to the iconic store?


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Recessive Alleles

Recessive alleles are a type of gene that is masked by the presence of a dominant allele and only expresses its phenotype when paired with an identical allele.

Two-trait Testcross

A genetic cross involving an individual exhibiting two traits with another that is homozygous recessive for those two traits to analyze the inheritance patterns of the traits.

Dihybrid Cross

A genetic cross between individuals with two different traits, leading to a study of the inheritance patterns of these traits.

Monohybrid Cross

This refers to a genetic cross between parents that differ in a single trait, resulting in offspring that inherit alleles for that trait from each parent.

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