Ten years ago futurists predicted that one day data would be stored in living organisms like bacteria. They picked 2020 as the date the feat would be accomplished. They were only off by ten years. During late 2010, a team…
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The development of a new organisms in sexual reproduction begins with two cells, one being a sperm cell and the other an egg cell. The egg cell provides the nutrients in the form of embryonic fluid for the organism, while…
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Typically when a person thinks of a species, they think of a single unit. Dogs. Cats. Birds. There are derivations of that species, true – Labradors and Terriers, Siamese and Himalayans, Parrots and Sparrows – but even so, individuals belonging…
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Researchers at Cardiff University, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and International colleagues reported finding a new gene, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM-1), which alters bacteria, making them resistant to virtually all known antibiotics. Found largely in E. coli bacteria, the…
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Why some believe the human race is in its final days Whilst it is good to imagine that in a century or two, we’ll be a united world and acting out Star Trek and Voyager for real, it is not…
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The quasispecies model of sequence evolution describes a group or cloud of related genotypes with a great deal of mutations. In comparison to a species in which genotypes tend to remain stable from one generation to the next, the offspring…
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A Quasispecies model of sequence evolution is necessary for scientists as a labeling tool for organisms with particular replicating habits. This method is a hangover from Darwinian science and is in direct opposite from species. Species are usually true to…
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If the definition of life is that it must be made of cells, then the answer is no, because viruses are not surrounded by a cellular membrane. However, perhaps it is time to revisit the definition of life, because viruses can certainly…
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The smallest parasites in the world are viruses and prions. They cannot be seen with conventional light microscopes because they are so small (between about 10 to 200 millimicrons across – and a millimicron is 0.000001 millimeters). Only the invention of…
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Flagellates are single celled animals, protozoans, that are characterised by the presence of a whip-like flagellum, which they use for locomotion. Choanoflagellates are a subgroup which are distinguished by having a single flagellum surrounded by a collar of microvilli, which…
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