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Research astrophysicist. Particularly interested in astrobiology, paleobiology, extremophiles, origin of life studies and studies of ageing. Working toward a biochemistry degree when I have time.
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Apr 7 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 21 |
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Do plant-animal cross races exist? You might want to change your question title to : Are there animals that can do photosynthesis? The term "race" doesn't have much meaning in biology. |
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Feb 17 |
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Is there life on other planets and if so how frequent? One thing is whether a planet is in a habitable zone - something we can begin to estimate with exoplanet observations - another is to know the probability of life evolving on the planet. Until we start to see evidence for extraterrestrial life (e.g. biosignatures) this is still a complete guess. |
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Feb 17 |
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What kind of microscope should be used to view biological structures (such as spores) roughly 5 µm in length? In this price range, I would avoid anything with very high magnifications > 600x or so. You'll find it very difficult to get enough contrast to see any details. |
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Feb 16 |
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Cell Respiration and Oxidative Phosphorylation For me, ATP synthase is one of the most remarkable features of the cell. Beautiful. |
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Feb 14 |
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Is there life on other planets and if so how frequent? added 187 characters in body |
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Feb 14 |
answered | Is there life on other planets and if so how frequent? |
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Dec 18 |
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Evolution in 37 years, is it possible? Interesting post, but your definition of evolution is incorrect. Evolution is not organismal adaptation. Most organisms can adapt to changing environments within certain parameters. It would be more accurate to say that evolution is the generational change of inherited characteristics (through processes such as natural selection.) |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 12 |
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What vegetation would thrive in the Martian atmosphere? Check out the answer here biology.stackexchange.com/questions/1242/… |
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Oct 31 |
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Can Bioluminescence drive photosynthesis? Also, what are you going to do with the methane? |
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Oct 31 |
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Can Bioluminescence drive photosynthesis? Sounds like an interesting project. But why not just expose the algae to sunlight? |
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Oct 26 |
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Filamentous algae - what exactly am I looking at? pond slime to 70's rock - i love it. |
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Oct 26 |
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Filamentous algae - what exactly am I looking at? thanks @shigeta. I currently don't have a camera attachment so I had to hold my SLR up against the eyepiece! |
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Oct 26 |
asked | Filamentous algae - what exactly am I looking at? |
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Oct 25 |
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Is there any documented evidence for suicide among vertebrates other than humans? I did say vertebrates since that was the original discussion I had, but evidence for "suicide" in any organism is interesting.. |
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Oct 16 |
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Should we be looking for extra-terrestrial life on comets? thanks @terdon that is what I meant! mind you, they found some very interesting inorganic compounds too ... |
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Oct 16 |
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What elements are a possible basis for life? For the time being, I think the best bet is to regard things as life if they look like life as we know it on Earth. It is dreadfully anthropocentric but at least its a starter until we really understand what separated living from non-living. |
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Oct 16 |
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Should we be looking for extra-terrestrial life on comets? added 52 characters in body |
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Oct 16 |
answered | Should we be looking for extra-terrestrial life on comets? |
