{"id":700,"date":"2025-07-13T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:03:00","slug":"107-pascals-triangle-in-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"107- Pascal&#8217;s Triangle in Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-700-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/103469669\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-31%2F371b5137-3362-9609-17b6-b330d6b2902d.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/103469669\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-31%2F371b5137-3362-9609-17b6-b330d6b2902d.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/103469669\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-31%2F371b5137-3362-9609-17b6-b330d6b2902d.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Pascal&#039;s Triangle is a useful concept in binomial theorem. However, it also has uses in biology. Today, we use it to answer the question- if you have X number of kids in a family or randomly chosen people in a sample, what is the probability of ending up with at least Y males and\/or Z females?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<p>TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal&#039;s Triangle is a useful concept in binomial theorem. However, it also has uses in biology. Today, we use it to answer the question- if you have X number of kids in a family or randomly chosen people in a sample, what is the probability of ending up with at least Y males and\/or Z &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;107- Pascal&#8217;s Triangle in Biology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}