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What is the difference between a mechanistic and a statistical predictive model?
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Why were there relatively fewer papers about cell fusion before the 1950s?
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How does an axon "know" it's not connecting to its own neuron?
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Are stable isotopes ever used in pharmaceuticals?
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Do the foldings in the brain vary person to person?
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Endogenous retroviral insertions as evidence for evolutionary relationships among primates
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Why do we use an autoclave at 121°C (250F)? (Origin)
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Why do skinny people live for shorter than the norm even though calorie restriction extends life expectancy?
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Why do we not develop tolerance to endogenous factors?
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How many human proteins are very well characterized?
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Male and female seahorses: which is which
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Dark, long-legged spider with long mouthparts in front, long "pincers" in the back and very short 3rd pair of legs (northern Taiwan)
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What stops messenger RNA from binding to itself?
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How do I put on a labcoat?
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Why is loud music much louder after pausing and resuming it?
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How does hemoglobin-free blood transport oxygen?
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Why do animals excrete excess nitrogen instead of recycling it?
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Crossbreeding mouse and chinchilla
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Identify blue/translucent jelly-like animal on beach
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Did predators evolve eyes first?
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Are there specific features of birds that cats/small predators are attracted to?
Awarded Apr 20 at 23:09
How does the human body extract energy from ethanol?
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Identification of these birds
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Tiny insect identification in potted plants
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Can acetylcholine leak away from the synapse and cause spasms?
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What is the name of these beautiful white trees?
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Why are O-antigens and H-antigens on (certain) bacteria called O and H?
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Explaining "paraphyly" for the layperson?
Awarded Feb 19 at 20:18
How deep under water can humans open their naked eyes without damaging them?
Awarded Feb 14 at 21:55
How many mice are on the Earth?
Awarded Feb 14 at 7:36
Why do cartilaginous fishes not excrete ammonia?
Awarded Feb 8 at 8:40
Has any large-scale origin-of-life simulation/experiment been done?
Awarded Feb 7 at 20:49
Is Chimpanzee mitochondrial DNA identical to human?
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Are these microscopic star-like structures on a dead leaf some sort of organism? If so, which one?
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(Why) can't blood sugar spikes be countered by consuming fiber generally?
Awarded Dec 31, 2022 at 8:03
What is the species of this small bird in Germany?
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Why is China experiencing such a surge in acute cases of COVID?
Awarded Dec 27, 2022 at 13:52
What is the minimum light intensity that a human eye can detect?
Awarded Dec 26, 2022 at 10:49
Why are red blood cells considered to be cells?
Awarded Dec 26, 2022 at 4:47
Are "antibodies" and "immunoglobulins" really the same things?
Awarded Dec 24, 2022 at 1:08
Did neanderthals need vitamin C from the diet?
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 11:51
What are the sources of molecular hydrogen in human breath?
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 21:42
Is atmospheric nitrogen chemically necessary for life?
Awarded Nov 15, 2022 at 8:56
What does phasing mean?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 19:17
How did Mendel know if a plant was a homozygous tall (TT), or a heterozygous tall (Tt)?
Awarded Nov 2, 2022 at 19:02
How do I calculate a "full-life" from a half-life of substance elimination?
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Evolution of dominance of alleles
Awarded Oct 1, 2022 at 9:17
What exactly is bound by the control line on COVID19 antigen tests?
Awarded Sep 30, 2022 at 14:36
Why are DNA samples stored as biochemical samples and not as binary data?
Awarded Sep 19, 2022 at 22:55
If tinnitus is, in many cases, caused by damaged ear hair cells, couldn't it be solved by a mini cochlear implant that sends a constant signal?
Awarded Sep 16, 2022 at 2:16
What's this stuff that looks like white chainmail armor growing on giant kelp?
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 3:35
What are possible health risks to women having large numbers of children?
Awarded Aug 16, 2022 at 13:45
Does the recent concern over several papers about Aβ*56 call into question the association of Alzheimers Disease with any amyloyd beta oligomer forms?
Awarded Aug 2, 2022 at 6:16
Why aren't the antibodies in the mother's milk digested by the infant's digestive system?
Awarded Jul 29, 2022 at 0:47
How can someone share 50% of their DNA with their parents yet all humans share 99.9%?
Awarded Jul 27, 2022 at 7:12
Isolation of viruses and Koch's Postulates in connection with terrain theory and claims that viruses don't exist
Awarded Jul 25, 2022 at 7:51
Can the Monkeypox virus be spread by mosquitoes?
Awarded Jul 18, 2022 at 12:49
Why do pandas have a high probability of giving birth to twins?
Awarded Jun 29, 2022 at 2:55
Why do carnivores evolve?
Awarded Jun 28, 2022 at 19:26
What is the name of this creature?
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