Rory M

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Medical student in the United Kingdom, having previously studied Biology at A-Level. I spend a good deal of my time volunteering with St John Ambulance, which I find fantastically rewarding and when I'm not writing essays I'm handling flags here on Bio.SE.

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56 Answers

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30	Why do Humans not produce Vitamin C like other mammals?
26	Why Does Salt Water Help Sore Throats?
20	Why would stablising selection ever happen?
16	How does laughing gas (N2O) work?
15	Why do plants have green leaves and not red?

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+25	Diffusion across cell membranes
+5	Why is uracil used in RNA rather than thymine?
+65	By what mechanism does an obstructed bile duct cause excess fat in the stool?
+10	How does the immune system “learn” from a vaccine?

23 Questions

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37	Is there a reason why human eyesight and plants make use of the same wavelength of light?
33	Why is uracil used in RNA rather than thymine?
20	Is there any advantage to one blood type over another?
16	Why would diffusion be faster across a non-specialised tissue?
12	What causes REM atonia to be lost in sleepwalking?

67 Tags

181 human-biology × 32	22 plant-physiology × 5
54 evolution × 8	21 immunology × 7
42 pharmacology × 5	20 photosynthesis × 3
35 botany × 6	19 zoology × 5
30 vitamins	17 hematology × 3