Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Section 2: General Biology
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Zeff=Z –S
Chlorine would have a Z value of 17 (the atomic number of Chlorine). Continuing to use Chlorine as an example, the 10 inner electrons (S) would screen out the positive charge of ten protons. Therefore there would be and effective nuclear charge of 17-10 or +7.
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#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Proportion of base pairs that differ between sequences(D)
D= 2rt
r = rate of divergence per base pair per million
T = time
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