40- Two Views on Communities
Today is more of a follow-up episode building on episode 39. Specifically, we're going to examine two different schools of thought about plant succession, known as the Gleasonian and Clementsian model...
11 Jul 20213min
39- Succession and Climax Communities
Our discussion this week is going to head back into ecology and focus on succession- a change in the species composition of a community across space or time. Sources for this episode: Cain, M. L., ...
4 Jul 20215min
38- Haemophilia
Haemophilia is a genetic condition which is characterised by one of the blood clotting factors, usually encoded for on the X chromosome, not being encoded for properly for various reasons- whether it'...
27 Jun 20215min
37- Metapopulations
We're all familiar with populations, but what about a metapopulation? Put simply, these are populations of populations. Thanks to our sources and also my interpretation of the subject from back when I...
20 Jun 20214min
36- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Back in the early 20th century, an English mathematician and a German scientist both independently came up with an equation to portray the frequency of different phenotypes in a hypothetical populatio...
13 Jun 20217min
35- Five Kingdoms, Three Domains
Today, we're going to discuss classification. We're going to briefly skim over how people historically used to organise life, before the establishment of the prokaryote-eukaryote division which would ...
6 Jun 20214min
34- The Tuatara
On the show today, we discuss the tuatara- two (or possibly only one) species of reptile which are the final representatives of an ancient lineage. I didn't really go into it in the main episode, but ...
30 Mai 20213min
33- Lethal Alleles
At A Level, we are taught that dominant: recessive traits are in a 3:1 ratio for any trait in which only one gene encodes for it. However, it's not always that simple. Enter lethal alleles... Sources...
23 Mai 20213min
