Top new questions this week:
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In his book 12 rules for life Jordan Peterson claims that: Consider serotonin, the chemical that governs posture and escape in the lobster. Low- ranking lobsters produce comparatively low levels of …
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Here is an excerpt from my textbook: Let us now see what happens in geometrical growth. In most systems, the initial growth is slow (lag phase), and it increases rapidly thereafter – at an …
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In some books the graph of the change in free energy during an enzyme-catalysed reaction is depicted as shown below, where S = substrate, E = enzyme, P = product, and T* represents the transition …
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In the annotation gff3 provided for CHM13 v2, I noticed that for the SF3B3 gene there’s no entry with type “gene” (third column). However, transcripts and other annotations are still …
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If I tried to knock in a gene for example KANMX and want to swap it with say some gene “x”, but, since, there can be double strand break in the DNA and KANMX may get inserted within the ds …
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I’m reading about X-inactivation and I can’t reconcile some things with it being truly random. In only a small percentage of female carriers Duchenne’s will be expressed. But if this was truly random, …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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What is the name of a phenomenon where one of the human eyes is seeing brighter/more saturated color than the other? I can observe the same object from the same position while alternating which eye is …
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How does the digestive acid (HCl) not burn the surrounding membrane of our stomach? It digests the majority of raw food we eat but how does it stay safely in our stomach? Also, how does the stomach …
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At the end of mitosis, one cell has divided into two diploid cells. But at the end of meiosis I, there are two haploid cells. How are the two processes different to produce these two types of cells?
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When babies are first born, they receive their antibodies from their mother (I assume because they do not yet have the capacity to synthesize their own). So my question is, at what age do babies …
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I know NADH is used in cellular respiration and NADPH is used in photosynthesis. What difference does the phosphate group make that the same one isn’t or can’t be used for both? Is there a greater …
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Frequently, I see colors with a slightly different hue when looking through my eyes individually. The right eye is more red-tinted (‘warmer’ hued) and the left is typically more blue-tinted (‘cooler’ …
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Everytime I see a ladybug I ask myself this question. Why does every ladybug have a different amount of points on its back? Is it because of its age? Or because of its genes? Is it inheritable?
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