Breathing is essential to life. Yet most of us don’t even give a thought to our respiration. Why is it that people need to take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide? The answer relates to how we extract energy from…
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Cells are basic units of all living things, including bacteria, plants and animals. The human body is composed entirely of cells, fluids and cellular products. As the basic functional units, the cells carry on life processes. Cells also have the…
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Have you ever wondered where all those pesky little, 6 legged insects go when cold winter weather comes? It can’t be far, because they are rapidly back when spring arrives! Nature provides some really fantastic ways for these insects to…
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Nitrogen is an integral part of the plant world apart from hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. It is found freely in the atmosphere which surprisingly isn’t absorbed or imbibed by the plant. However, plants receive their nitrogen proportions from the soil…
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Bryophytes are the amphibians of the plant world. They resemble Thallophytes in many ways and they are the precursors of the Pteridophytes. In Greek, Bryon means ‘moss’ and Phyton means ‘plant’ and hence they are generally termed as mosses, liverworts…
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins was a revolution in evolutionary biology. Here I have compiled a review of the book together with a brief explanation of the theory for the layman interested in reading it. First of all, who…
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Humans have studied living things throughout history. For most of this time, our study was simply an effort to identify species and behaviors that would support human survival- either in terms of hunting, agriculture or predator avoidance. But over the…
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Ever been to day camp on a rainy day? If you have, then you have undoubtedly seen the movies about Jane Goodall and her ape friends in the jungle. (Think Gorillas in the Mist with real science.) Camp directors have…
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Humans have a need to classify and simply information. One way we do this in biology is by naming and classifying all the organisms that have been discovered. A scientific name is given to all organisms so that they can…
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The body systems operate as one to maintain man’s health and well-being. There are various systems involved to ensure that the human body stays healthy. These systems are the nervous, circulatory, excretory, muscular, digestive, skeletal, integumentary, endocrine and respiratory. Each…
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