Biology Resources (page 18)

When I was in school, Biology was probably always one of my favourite subjects. As clichéd as it may sound, I was always fascinated by the way organisms work, what makes humans and an...

The categorisation of all living matter is organised into the tree of life; this describes the pathway of evolution and how animals are related to each-other. The Kingdom Metazoa (ani...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a region on chromosome 6. There are 224 identified gene loci (of which 128 are protein coding) meaning that HLA has the highest gene density of any ge...

Biological/biotechnological function: The cuticle acts as a biological solar cell, converting light energy to electrical energy. Under experimental conditions, voltages of several ...

Every year 55,000 people worldwide die from the rabies virus. Rabies is an enzootic virus, prevalent in certain animal populations mainly within Asia and Africa. However, it is also a...

The key to getting a good grade is preparation. Some of the key steps are: 1. Get your mark scheme / guidance and read it thoroughly. Do you know what you are supposed to be doing?...

Despite numerous advanced woundcare solutions, the reality for patients with chronic wounds is the challenge of protracted treatment, with management of underlying primary pathology, ...

With the GCSE exams a little less than 40 days away, a sense of panic may be settling in. Having gone through this process before; I know the feeling all too well. However, I propos...

An estimated 498 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections occur worldwide annually. Of these, 106 million are gonococcal infections,rendering gonorrhea the second...

Will Human Cloning be around in 2030? Should humans be cloned? That is the question that many people all over the world have been debating for a long time now even though Scien...