Biology Definition and 603 Threads

Does anyone know which website contain online biology textbook,A level one? :cool: Or which website provide revision site for all topic for A level biology? :smile: thanks a lot for anyone who help :-p

Hi, I'm doing a telomere assignment for biology, and i have a few questions. 1) are they called "telomers" or "telomeres"? 2) when and by whom were they discovered? (i've looked everywhere!) Thank, you. and i must say, those things are fascinating!

Francis Crick figured out the structure of DNA with a degree in Physics!Should physicists be applying themselves to finding cures for medical diseases? In general,physics groups have more members and posts on the internet than other groups.Why are physicists so passionate/aggressive about...

hi there everyone can you help me out a bit please:Relationship between the concentration of phosphate ions in nutrient solutionsand the number of cells dividing by mitosis in root tips. your planning must be based on assumption that you are provided with the following: suitable plant...

Does anyone have any websites or books that will help me do good on the U of T National Biology Competition. Please post ANYTHING that you feel with help me. Here is the webiste if you want info about it : http://www.biocomp.utoronto.ca/index.htm Thank you

Hey, I am in grade 11 biology and i have this question to do for my homework. I'm having a little trouble answering the question because i think my teachers wording was pretty awful.. anyways here it is. Some cells are described as protein factories. Describe the organic structure of a...

What is your favorite biology discipline and why? What is your favorite biology discipline and why? General subfields within biology Anatomy | Bioinformatics | Botany | Ecology | Evolutionary biology | Genetics | Marine biology | Human biology | Cell biology | Microbiology | Molecular...

Well, I am in secondary school. But now, I am just learning about bones, vertebrae, and all that, is that slow? Where can I get more information?

Hi. My girlfriend has a biology crossword to do for class, and there's two very hard ones that I'm hoping you can just tell me. I'll use underscores for empty boxes and fill in the letters we have...er...she has. If the letters are wrong that she's gotten, please tell what the answer is so...

Hey Is the study of biology more of an advantage in terms of careers ,intellectal study or being cutting edge compared to other sciences?

Hey, jus an after thought: Which greek god would you associate with biology and Which person(s) would you associate with biology and which work do u tink best represent biology lastly what breakthrought(s) do u tink represent biology??

Why close Saint's thread without an explanation? At the very least it should have been moved over to General Discussion where it had the chance of qualifying for having the funniest responses of all time. Young guys in angst over or consumed by self-amorousness from wankin'? :smile...

I’m starting to think about what I want to do for the regional science fair and this year I might do something pertaining to biology, so ideas and comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Garret

For any of the Bad Religion fans here, Dr. Graffin now has his PhD dissertation from Cornell available. It is in paperback book form titled "Evolution, Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist World-View: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". 252 pages. http://www.cornellevolutionproject.org/...

Good day fellas'. I am inquiring the academic and career advices on what major might best suit me fo Pre-med. I never took chemistry, nor biology... I'm Junior in high school. I took two years of physics. What other majors are open for Pre-med? -Regards

Hey all. I am new. I am from the merry old land of aus (Australia), in the southern state called victoria. I almost crapped my pants when i saw this site. I couldn't believe that there were people interested in this stuff so much. I am in year 12, and i have my biology exam on the 1st of...

In the disease myathenia gravis, the body makes, by mistake, antibodies to its own actylcholine receptors molecules. These antibodies bind to and inactivate acetylcholine receptors on the plasma membrane of muscle cells. The disease leads to a progressive weakening of the patients motor...

ok I'm new to the forum, there is a mass amount of intelligence here i have seen over the past few days reading. this is my first college biology class, and i am probably going to major in zoology because of a strong passion for understanding anima... ha oh yes back to the point.. we have to...

Hey guys! I'm taking a pretty basic cell biology class this semester, our book is "The World of the Cell", 5th edition, by Becker, Kleinsmith, and Hardin. My prof assigned a little homework assignment, it's pretty easy, but I think I'm reading to deep into it. The problem is called...

can we post molecular biology questions here? (just to have something to type since i can't delete this post...BTW how can we delete our own posts?)

In the Questions on _g_ and intelligence thread we have been discussing one branch of psychology (psychometrics), and one branch within that sub-discipline (intelligence). In that thread, Mandrake quoted Jensen: This got me wondering, what is the status of all other psychological variables...

Well, I'm sitting here in biology, teacher's saying you can apply it anywhere, its connected to anything. We had to write an essay about how it applies to the field we were interested in. Long story short: I give up and ask him "how's biology related to theoretical physics? Or quantum physics?"...

Hey, is anyone conducting bio research? I myself am doing some research on prostate cancer -- trying to demonstrate FAS as a metabolic oncogene. Please tell me about your projects and I think we can learn from one another. Currently we are using transgenic mice in hopes to see a positive...

One of keys in the development of the modern Biology, exemplified by the advances in Genetics was due to a reductionist view. Nevertheless it is possible that an excess of reductionism have side effects. So, face to Biochemistry, less work was done in Biophysics (reflected in databases as...

Something came up on the TV that made me wonder about this. I understand that we can account for certain aspects of the feelings of love that humans experience. First, what is the limit of this understanding. Next, how do we account for the many [philosophically] different types of love...

Is it possible to specify cellular biology by incorperating the laws of quantum physics?

Couple weeks ago, I read an article by Carl R. Woese titled "A New Biology for a New Century" . Woese discuss the state of biology nowadays and the direction it should follows. We were discussing the article amongst some microbiologist the other at our conference and what came out was that he...

I conducted an investigation into the strange interpretations of physics. As a consequence of debunking those interpretations I discovered something that is truly amazing. There is a symmetry of structure and process across and within the sub-atomic, atomic and biology domains. This...

I went into a Biology course not expecting anything exciting. When asked later how I liked the course I said it was ok and explained that I only took it because it was the best course in my time slot. Starting out with a pessimistic view probably contributed to my view somewhat. It was also...

Tommorrow I have a practical on the dissection of a fetal pig I have been doing all week. Today I removed the brain- intact out of the pig. I have completely forgotten a couple parts of the brain- and would like to remember them when I have the test tommorrow. Since the pig brain is similair in...

How do you distinguish a human gene from a mouse gene by name? How about proteins? Is there a general consensus which says that genes should be italic and proteins non-italic and that human genes/proteins capitalized and mouse gene/proteins non-capitalized?

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So how do you actually learn about biology? Like.. I am going to graduate with a degree in biology, and I will have taken the following classes: Biol 1 and 2 (the two intros) Genetics Evolution Animal Behavior Microbiology Histology A basic A&P class Ecology Parasitology And I...

We were learning about birth defects in Biology. Stuff about genetics like Down Syndrome, Mobius, that usually lead to an extra/less chromosome causing retardation. Is there a way one can become mentally retarded? I mean, without multiple concussions or whacks/impacts to the head...

Can someone pull a rabbit out of a hat for me & explain why just because an object (like a cell or an animal) gets bigger, its surface area doesn't get proportionally bigger? I made myself a little chart where I took a sphere & found the vol & the s.a. at 1 cm radius, at 2 cm radius, and 3 cm...

I'm crazy. I moved from the US back to the Netherlands to start a research career here, but I am not satisfied and want to move back to the US.. I want to know which Universities are known for their Biology programs and if those are nice cities to live in. I could just stop working on...

Post any questions you have about Molecular Biology in here (or anything related...Microbiology, lab techniques, experiments etc). Whether you want to know something specific (What is a nucleotide? for example), or something broad (What are RFLP's? for example). This thread could be useful to...

This is about your opinion, how do you feel about biology. Do you think the topic is high-tech science, or do you feel it is just people working outside in a field, writing down their observations?

Here is a discussion of a recent experiment paralleling Libet's famous one of 20 years ago. Our free will is "spread out" (Dennet) in time. http://www.carlzimmer.com/blog/C1015037710/E317172943/index.html

[SOLVED] PhD in Biology Okay, well I'm new to the forum and I'm a little confused about majoring in bio. My situation is that my family is kind of middle-classed, we do well I guess, have a house, my father only works, blah blah.. Now I want to help my Dad with our expenses, but my main...

Biology Vs Electronics ! Hi! I am not a “Biology” man! But I have an interesting question that I always think of: We have seen many sci-fi usually Asimov stories that robots are becoming - humans! These homo sapiens as far as I know very complex system specially the brain – nervous system...

Post anything you know about any other real life applications to Mathematics.

here is a case i need to diagnose: A man was finally encouraged by his wife to go to the doctor. The man was experiencing headaches and loss of his peripheral vision. What alarmed him though was that he was producing breast milk. The doctor asked him waht medication he was on and he told the...

I've just finished 1st year of my science degree, supposedly where they give you a taste of everything possible, and you get to decide what to specialise in. The problem is, I like pretty much all of it ! I'm having real trouble with what majors to choose from. I know I want to major in...

I am wondering, does it give one an edge to know programming language in Biomolecular Sciences? For instance if a certain analysis, maybe statistical, needs to be done.. and you can write your own little program.. If so, which languages would be the best to master? Visual Basics, C++, Oracle..?

Hi all, I've been reading through these forums for a while now. I don't post, but I just like to watch what discussions are occurring. I will say that the level of intelligence here is intimidating! Though at the same time, it's also challenging because I feel that whatever query I have will...

Has biology ever predicted an organisms action exactly correctly? meaning, has biology ever reduced an organism down to an equation, and had it work multiple times in experiments, and then singled out variables and applied them to other experiments? if biology hasnt, how close has it...

Take a look at this website, it has some really neat Clips, Stills, and Slides of small life forms: http://www.cytographics.com/Especially nice is the video of Xenopus (toad) eggs. The video illustrate, how perfectly times embyonic development is, since three three eggs were fertilized at the...

I have been considering starting a series of threads (don't worry, there won't be too many of them) all relating to some Technical aspects of Molecular Biology. I have thought of doing this for 2 reasons. Firstly, some people might be interested in learning about various topics in molecular...

I have read a surprising theory about the massive Permian extinction at http://www.nature.com/nsu/030818/030818-16.html. Briefly, Gregory Ryskin of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, argues that a tremendous explosion of the methane dissolved under the seas has caused the...