loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoHOW PLANTS WORK: Tomatoes worth their salt.One substance that is not in short supply on this planet is salt. Two-thirds of the world is covered in salty water…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoSENSES AND BEHAVIOUR: Learned Responses, Complex Learning and the Work of Wolfgang Kohler and Jane Goodall.Greetings to all my readers. Thanks for the constant support and motivations. I will start today's post by explaining…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoSENSES AND BEHAVIOUR: Photoreception in cone cells, Hearing, Balance, and Simple Behaviour.Greetings to my ardent readers and to the entire steemstem community. This post is a sequel to my previous post on…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoSENSES AND BEHAVIOUR: Structure of The Eye and Vision at Molecular Level.The eyes are literally our window on the world. This most sensitive and intricate of sense organs has fascinated…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoSENSES AND BEHAVIOURTalking about making fishing nets ‘visible’ to dolphins. Dolphins, porpoises and toothed whales make sense of their…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoHORMONES: Gigantism, Acromegaly, and The Action of Adrenaline, Prostagladins, Endorphins and Pheromones.Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, had a condition called gigantism; he probably had a tumour that…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoHORMONES: Insects and their hormone problems.We usually think of hormones as complex chemicals that occur in the human body. But hormones control all sorts of…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoTHE CHEMICALS OF LIFE: Analyzing Proteins, Collagen, and Nucleic Acid.Greetings to my dear readers and the entire steemstem community. Thanks for the constant support, I really do…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoTHE CHEMICALS OF LIFE: Steroids in Athletics and the Importance of Protein to Living Organisms.Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that are similar in structure to testosterone, the male sex hormone. They…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoTHE CHEMICALS OF LIFE: Reducing Sugar, Polysaccharides and Lipids.The term ‘reducing sugar’ reflects the fact that some certain sugars can reduce other chemicals. What this means is…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoTHE CHEMICALS OF LIFE: Back in time to ‘RNA world’All new organisms come from other organisms – they don’t just arise spontaneously. So how did life first come about…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoDNA TECHNOLOGY: Whole Organism Cloning and the Ethical Problems Surrounding it.Cloning is a difficult topic for anyone; it is not only complex biology, but it is also a tricky subject ethically…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoDNA TECHNOLOGY: Gene Therapy and Cystic FibrosisCystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that is due to one defective allele (I’ve explained this in details in some…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoDNA TECHNOLOGY: Cloning Genes and Making Transgenic Organisms.The first recombinant DNA molecules were produced in the early 1970s when bacteria were made to copy foreign DNA…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoDNA TECHNOLOGY: Carbon Copy Cat And CloningIn February 2002, the first cloned cat, a kitten called cc (the typists’ abbreviation for ‘carbon copy’) made her…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoEVOLUTION: How Many Kingdoms Are There?How many kingdoms are there?The answer to this question reveals a lot about the nature of science. There is no…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoEVOLUTION IN ACTION: The Hardy-Weinberg Principle and the Diversity of Life.The process of evolution is generally slow, and it is no surprise that for centuries people thought that the living…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoEVOLUTION: Natural Selection and the Evidence for Evolution.Many people tend to think that evolution is something that happened in the past and that the world of today is the…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoEVOLUTION: The Doomed Mating of the Kakapo and The Theories on The Origin of Species.On a few remote islands off the coast of New Zealand the world’s largest parrot – the kakapo – is just clinging to…loveforlove (65)in #steemstem • 7 years agoHOW GENES ARE INHERITED: Cystic fibrosis, Dihybrid Inheritance and when Mendel's laws don't apply. Cystic fibrosis: an example of monohybrid inheritance. The disease is caused by the mutation of a single allele. A…
