Biology Resources (page 13)

Adenosine triphosphate is the immediate source of energy in an organism. Animal cells use ATP in many different ways such as synthesis of new cells, synthesis of amino acids, active t...

The Main Ideas1. Cells need energy in the form of ATP so they can carry out essential jobs.2. Cells make their own ATP and plant cells can make it during photosynthesis as well as res...

"A discussion of the role of Ca2+ in the response of stomatal guard cells to ABA'lt;/p> Abscisic acid (ABA) induced calcium ion (Ca2+) flux is responcible for the decrease in turgor ...

Offspring of many animals signal their nutritional needs using conspicuous begging displays. Theoretical models for the evolution of begging suggest that costly begging signals provid...

During the daytime, plants convert the Sun's energy into sugars using photosynthesis, a complex, multi-stage biochemical process. New work from a team including Carnegie's Mark H...

INTRODUCTION How precious is hindsight? As the first human explorers left the confines of the continents and their homelands they had no inkling of the biological treasure houses...

Abstract: Vitamin D is demonstrated significant impact in modifying cellular and genomic functions in many diseases including cancers. Previous investigations supported genomic ins...

IntroductionIn recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in the way in which people relate to the larger marine mammal species (Williams et al, 2002:255). In 1993, the Internati...

I have been looking through more of my old articles for DinoLore, the website I had before this blog, but which I decided to shut down. Some of them were pretty nice though, and, ...

I was quite surprised to hear when many of our teachers and tutors gave feedback regarding the rules of taxonomic nomenclature (i.e. how to write the names of animal goups) apparen...