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During electroporation of bacterial cells (I work with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but I think this applies to E. coli as well), sometimes I get sparking. I've read this is due to salts present, eit
I recognize people around me by their facial appearance to begin with, then by their little idiosyncracies; this applies perhaps to most other humans too.
These two concepts seem almost contradictory, proteins have a net negative charge due to the amino acids in them each having a small negative charge, yet membrane proteins are able to exist traversi
I see that quite a lot of drugs and dietary supplements sold in the USA have -HCl(hydrochloride) added to their name. For example pyridoxine hydrochloride for Vitamin B6. I'm interested in knowing w
There is a region that gets about 812mm of precipitation and is mildly hot all year long.I believe this region is a tropical savanna, but I'm not 100% sure
When I grew rabbits, I had a pair, one male and one female. And while the female's nipples were quite prominent, especially after giving birth, I don't remember the male having any nipples at all.
When a person's arm is amputated, the arm will no longer be able to grow back. However, in salamanders, the arm actually grows back.
Discuss your opinion of the use of genetic testing to find out if someone is positive for a dominant gene or a carrier for a disease gene.
Which of the following is the metabolite of ethylene glycol? a) Formaldehyde, formic acid b) Acetone c) Acetaldehyde, Acetate d) glyoxalate, oxalic acid
Predict four different amino acid in the enzymes F-2,6,P2 site and indicate for each amino acid how it interacts with the regulatory molecule.
Darwin's contribution to evolutionary thought is natural selection. What is natural selection, and how does this differ from the Lamarckian theory of evolution
Identify four priorityareas of VicHealth.
glycogen provides a tyrosine residue for initiating glycogen chains.
Of the three types of cell shapes found in epithelial tissues, which are the best at allowing active transport processes?
I wonder because mice and humans, although both being mammals, are separated probably by tens millions years of separate evolution. By the "mammals" logic, dolphins, cows, wolves, and goats, all bei
Medicare is said to be one of the most important components of Australia's health care system. What is Medicare?Identify one advantage and one disadvantage of Medicare.
Do bugs love light bulbs because they resemble the stars or is it the sun? How do they sense the bulb?
Enzymes accelerate biochemical reactions toward equilibrium by lowering the free energy of the transition state between substrates and products.
Some time ago, I read James Gleick's "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", a wonderful biography of Feynman and, by extension, most of modern physics. In this book, the author mentions
Hijra are people who have a penis (not sure if sexually active) but look much like a female (perhaps for some feminine biological property). Wikipedia says they are "physiological males who have fem
I asked a question related to the third sex, and I came to know that its always possible to categorize a human to male or female with presence of Y chromosome.
Layman here. So I have never really quite understood this facet of human evolution, (or any other for that matter), in that, I understand the evolutionary process, but I get lost on the 'border' cas
Non-government organizations play an imperative role in promoting a balanced and healthy dietary intake in the Australian population.Identify one Australian non-government agency and briefly describ
At school we were told on scale of 0 through 1000 the animal kingdom ranges from amoeba the simplest/primitive being at 0, and Humans the most complex animals at 1000
Sunlight doesn't penetrate beyond a couple of hundred feet from the surface of the ocean. Species that exist at greater depth probably live in a state of perpetual night; yet from a quick google ima