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Animal and Plant Cells
How do plant and animal cells differ? Are plants living? How do plants get food? Why are
Prokaryotic v/s Eubacteria
Which are you? How do you know!!!!!!!!! What does it mean by a “true nucleus”? Are your cells composed of a true nucleus? What’s in the nucleus? Talk to me
Corralling The Carbon Cycle: Calculating How Much Carbon Dioxide Is Absorbed And Released By Plants
Scientists may have overcome a major hurdle to calculating how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed and released by plants, vital information for understanding how the biosphere responds to stress and for determining the amount of carbon that can be safely emitted by human activities.
The problem is that ecosystems simultaneously take up and release CO2. [...]
Mysterious Microbe May Play Important Role In Ocean Ecology
An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material, even though researchers have [...]
Bacteria II
Bacteria infections are terrible and can be very dangerous to the human body. Usually when a person has a bacteria infection antibiotics are prescribed. Why should you take the entire prescription for the alloted time
Alternative Fuels: Retooled Approach May Make Bio-based Butanol More Competitive With Ethanol
A modified method of producing biobutanol could make the fuel more competitive with ethanol as a clean-burning alternative to gasoline.
According to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi, biobutanol offers several advantages. It can be transported in existing pipelines, it’s less corrosive, it can be mixed with gasoline or used alone in internal combustion [...]
Predatory Bacterial Swarm Uses Rippling Motion To Reach Prey
Like something from a horror movie, the swarm of bacteria ripples purposefully toward their prey, devours it and moves on.
Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying this behavior in Myxococcus xanthus (M. xanthus), a bacterium commonly found in soil, which preys on other bacteria.
Despite its deadly role in the bacterial world, M. xanthus is [...]
Bacteria
Is bacteria a bad thing or a good thing? or BOTH? Where will you find bacteria—-where will you find bacteria in your body? Here is the award wining question. Yogurt is a wonderful food that claims to good
Dirty Brown Clouds Impact Glaciers, Agriculture And The Monsoon
Cities from Beijing to New Delhi are getting darker, glaciers in ranges like the Himalayas are melting faster and weather systems becoming more extreme, in part, due to the combined effects of man-made Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
These are among the conclusions of scientists studying a more than three km-thick [...]
