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Is there any evolutionary reason why male traits appear in the heterogametic sex and female traits in the homogametic sex?

evolution sex

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Why does Nature use a 4-level system to encode information in DNA?

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Why is half dose of Oxford's vaccine of covid more effective than full dose?

medicine coronavirus vaccination medicinal-chemistry

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Is artificial selection a mechanism of evolution?

evolution

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How is the recipient's probability of survival calculated in Hamilton's Rule?

evolution altruism

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Are room temperature DNA preservation services, those marketed to consumers, effective as advertised? [closed]

dna dna-isolation

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Why are Ramachandran angles of first and the last amino acid not necessary to define the full 3D structure of a protein chain?

biochemistry molecular-biology bioinformatics protein-structure computational-model

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What causes eye strain when viewing any display?

human-eye

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Would it be possible to transfer a thermal resistance gene from a heat resistant organism to vitamin B or C?

genetics

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Pectoral fins in fish, why the terminology abductor and adductor for main muscle groups?

ichthyology

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Generating Cartesian coordinates of each atom in protein chain from the internal coordinates using python or some software

biochemistry bioinformatics protein-structure structural-biology computational-model

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Quantitative Physiology Textbooks Recommendations?

human-biology physiology human-physiology theoretical-biology

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Is there a way to derive Bazett's formula to correct QT interval in ECG?

cardiology electrophysiology electrocardiography

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How are logarithmic trendline equations used to determine antibody concentrations in ELISA?

biochemistry microbiology

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Are (muscle) satellite cells the same as muscle stem cells?

cell-biology muscles stem-cells

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Why there are two types of medium (YPGlu and YPGal) in the K. lactis Protein Expression Kit?

yeast protein-expression

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Is there any evidence for sperm parameters being connected to fitness of the offspring produced by that sperm?

evolution sexual-reproduction adaptation

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What does vaccine efficacy mean?

immunology virology coronavirus vaccination

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Pressure measurement blood flow

human-biology hematology blood-pressure

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Why do earthworms have so little colour?

pigmentation annelida

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Is there a survey on whether people have gained or lost weight as a consequence of lockdown?

coronavirus biostatistics

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movements of lipids in cell membrane [closed]

human-biology cell-biology cell-membrane

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Human excretory system [closed]

excreta

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For which animals, can we make iPS-derived reproductive chimeras?

mutations embryology stem-cells chimerism

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How do ribosomes know not to translate non-coding RNA?

genetics molecular-biology molecular-genetics

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Do beavers' tails hurt from being dragged?

mammals pain

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Factors of infection rate

literature coronavirus epidemiology infection

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Why do large, aromatic residues prefer beta-pleated sheets?

proteins protein-structure

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Bio transformation [closed]

human-biology biochemistry molecular-biology homework cancer

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When does the Cas9 nuclease stop?

crispr cas9 gene-editing

modified 2 days ago Blue Various 201

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Can we see the cell cycle of the cells administered using IVIS-like device?

experiment cell-cycle imaging

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what kind of bug do you thing this is? [duplicate]

zoology entomology

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How to store a person's DNA for years? [closed]

dna

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Techniques to find out which species are endangered

ecology population-dynamics population-biology book-recommendation

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Lower optimum temperature of plant Catalase

enzymes temperature

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Examples of environmentally influenced gene-expression in humans?

genetics human-genetics

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Does Krebs cycle occur in fast glycolytic muscle fibres?

muscles mitochondria

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Why doesn't the rate of photosynthesis increase with increasing light energy (frequency)?

plant-physiology photosynthesis light

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In ketogenesis, why is acetacetyl-CoA not directly hydrolized to acetoacetate in ketogenesis?

metabolism biosynthesis

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Why don't sodium Voltage Gated Channels open during Repolarization?

human-biology neuroscience neurophysiology human-physiology

answered Nov 24 at 17:40 Bryan Krause♦ 27.2k

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Why is the “mango fly” called a “mango fly”?

terminology

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Which wasp species is that?

species-identification entomology wasps

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Is Pars intermedia functional in humans?

human-biology human-physiology endocrinology

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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition, evolution of the “elbow” in Stem Tetrapods

evolution zoology vertebrates

answered Nov 24 at 8:49 aliential 6,815

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When telomere length is measured, is the method performed on a collection of cells yielding an average?

evolution natural-selection senescence telomere measurement

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Sequence structure of antibodies

coronavirus antibody

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