
Stealth Mosquitoes? - Biology Stack Exchange
Aug 26, 2024 · Have mosquitoes become silent and invisible, or am I losing my senses of hearing and sight? This summer I have seen no mosquitoes and have only heard two of them, very quiet, as I sat …
metabolism - Why are 6 turns of the Calvin cycle needed to make one ...
Oct 6, 2021 · I‘ve read that 6 turns of the Calvin cycle are required to make 1 glucose molecule. But, 3CO 2 and 3RuBP are used in one cycle and 6 triose phosphate is produced. Only 5 triose …
Is there a measure of human genetic variation, where human genetic ...
Dec 30, 2019 · The question makes it clear that the poster is aware of the different ways of estimating human genetic variation, and he is also no doubt aware of the fact that Wikipedia is written by …
Mammal body density - Biology Stack Exchange
Human body density is approximately 1 kg/l (same as fresh water) - which is not surprising (at first) given that we are 70% water, and is surprising (on a second thought), given that the other 30% ...
Phosphorylation of glucose in glycolysis - Biology Stack Exchange
Jul 26, 2025 · In the first step of glycolysis, the glucose ring is phosphorylated. Phosphorylation is the process of adding a phosphate group to a molecule derived from ATP. As a result, at this point in …
dna - qPCR precipitation - Biology Stack Exchange
Nov 8, 2023 · I have performed DNA precipitation using two methods on an amplified 194 bp PCR product: using a PEG method with just cold 80% ethanol PEG worked much better for me. Can the …
Why are so few foods blue? - Biology Stack Exchange
Feb 22, 2017 · Although blue foods exist, they're rare enough compared to other foods for food preparers to use blue plasters as a convention. The natural colour of a given food is due to pigments …
Difference between Premature Atrial Contraction and Atrial Fibrillation
Jul 17, 2019 · what is the difference between Premature Atrial Contraction and Atrial Fibrillation. I know that both have irregular heart beat but have normal QRS complex. Both have abnormal or absence P …
Are eukaroytic promoters located in the 5' UTR region?
Sep 15, 2015 · Most promoter elements are not a part of the mRNA sequence. They are upstream (towards 5') of the transcription start site. However, a certain class of promoters called downstream …
Do spiders learn how to build webs? - Biology Stack Exchange
Nov 4, 2021 · Spiders’ ability to weave webs is a classic example of an innate or instinctual behavior. They do not learn to make webs. The earliest English-language scientific publication that I can find to …