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HOW PLANTS WORK: The Mechanism Of Translocation, Living In Extremes, and the Adaptations Of Cereal Crops.

Hello, readers. This is the concluding post on the topic I stopped in my previous post where I discussed about translocation and phloem.Today, I will start by e...

HOW PLANTS WORK: Mycorrhizas, Xylem and Phloem.

Greetings to the entire HiveSTEM community. Thanks for all the supports and motivations. It’s great to be back on Hive. In my last post, I explained vividly on ...

HOW 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 and there are vast deposits on land. This is...

SENSES 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 more on the learned responses such as habi...

SENSES 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 Senses and behaviour. In the final paragraph,...

SENSES 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 both scientists and poets for centuries. In thi...

SENSES AND BEHAVIOUR

Talking about making fishing nets ‘visible’ to dolphins. Dolphins, porpoises and toothed whales make sense of their environment by producing a variety of squeak...

HORMONES: 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 produced large amounts of growth hormone. The gro...

HORMONES: 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 processes in all sorts of organisms. The vital...

THE 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 appreciate.This post is a continuation from where ...

THE 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 increase anabolic (building-up) reactions, w...

THE 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 that the sugar can donate electrons to other...

THE 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? Could it have developed from non-living che...

DNA 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, What you feel about cloning may not just dep...

DNA TECHNOLOGY: Gene Therapy and Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that is due to one defective allele (I’ve explained this in details in some of my past posts). About one person in 25 ...

DNA 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 along with their own, However, in 1983 an Ameri...

DNA TECHNOLOGY: Carbon Copy Cat And Cloning

In February 2002, the first cloned cat, a kitten called cc (the typists’ abbreviation for ‘carbon copy’) made her world press debut. Cute though she was, cc hig...

EVOLUTION: 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 general agreement about how many kingdoms there a...

EVOLUTION 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 world was static. However, there are situati...

EVOLUTION: 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 finished product. But this is far from the tr...