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| age | 19 | |
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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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Dec 31 |
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Where can I find the common names for the zoology taxonomy? Response to OP's comment |
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Dec 31 |
suggested | suggested edit on What is the most difficult feature to explain evolutionarily? |
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Dec 30 |
answered | Where can I find the common names for the zoology taxonomy? |
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Dec 30 |
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How do CpG islands remain unmethylated? Made links clickable for convenience |
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Dec 30 |
suggested | suggested edit on How do CpG islands remain unmethylated? |
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Dec 29 |
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Is telomere length a reliable measure of health/lifespan? There's no math equation processing at the moment but you can use the html <sup> tag if you wish for things such as R-squared =) |
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Dec 29 |
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Why are there nail growth differences between humans and other mammals? Fixing spelling and a little bit of grammar |
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Dec 29 |
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Is there evidence that some non-human species perform sexual selection based primarily on intelligence? How do they do this? Improving the grammar and spelling, mainly reducing excessive comma usage to improve flow |
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Dec 29 |
answered | Online repositories of scanning electron microscope photographs? |
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Dec 29 |
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Online repositories of scanning electron microscope photographs? Are you looking for images for your personal use, CC or similar licensed images or commercial photos? =) |
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Dec 28 |
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How is temperature sensed? How are objects of temperatures in the middle of the 18-24 °C sensed? Is it expected that further channels will be found? I really enjoyed your answer - it's particularly interesting to me to have discovered, as a by-product of following your links, how the burning effect of chilli peppers is as a result of TRPV1. |
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Dec 28 |
suggested | suggested edit on epigenetics tag wiki excerpt |
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Dec 28 |
wiki | created epigenetics excerpt |
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Dec 27 |
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Is trembling an advantageous response during periods of anxiety? @Andrei Ahh I thought you meant actual temperature change rather than perceived temperature change, apologies |
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Dec 27 |
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Effects of Polyphasic vs Monophasic sleep in humans edited tags |
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Dec 27 |
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Why did the process of sleep evolve in many animals? What is its evolutionary advantage? edited tags |
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Dec 27 |
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Is trembling an advantageous response during periods of anxiety? @Andrei Well I suppose if we follow it through then we could hypothesise that adrenaline released in times of fear would raise heart rate which, if not coupled with vasoconstriction, would lower body temperature. However I think I am correct in thinking that adrenaline also raises blood pressure which I assume is the result of the contraction of blood vessels? |
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Dec 27 |
answered | Effects of Polyphasic vs Monophasic sleep in humans |
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Dec 27 |
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Why would diffusion be faster across a non-specialised tissue? I had not even considered the mechanical action of chewing - how ridiculous! However, it doesn't fully explain the difference as Hypostop is a gel and still preferentially applied directly into the mouth rather than being swallowed. |
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Dec 27 |
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Is there a photobleaching-resistant, cell-permeant viability stain in the far red part of the spectrum? edited tags |
