
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 …
How is the size of a gene defined? - Biology Stack Exchange
Jun 16, 2016 · Is there an agreed definition as to how many nucleic acid bases constitute a gene? If not, why not? I'm not sure I understand how the exact sizes of genes are defined.
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 …
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% ...
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 …
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 …
homework - Do humans have Coelom? - Biology Stack Exchange
Wikipedia actually covers this: Most bilateral animals, including all the vertebrates, are coelomates. Now, some coelomates have subsequently lost their coelom but primates (actually, I believe, all …
Can phenotype change without change in genotype?
May 21, 2024 · The Logical fallacy ‘Phenotype’ is defined [by the poster] as the morphological expression of characters on the basis of genetic constitution/genotype There is no reason to accept …
Why are basophils and eosinophils considered granulocytes?
Aug 19, 2021 · Thank you for your in detailed response. I was reading the kaplan book and they had a figure but it wasn’t really discussed. However, this does explain the trouble I ran into with other …