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How do the hair cells of the inner ear contribute to most of the hypercapnic respiratory response?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452210015253 Mice with damaged ears exhibited a significantly suppressed respiratory response to carbon dioxide. From the study: The mean ...
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Is the biomass decreasing?

Is the overall biomass decreasing over time, and if yes, has that trend started within the last say $200$ years (about when industrialization started)? EDIT. Let me add some of my own attempts to ...
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Is there a word for the length of time an animal stays with parents before going off on their own?

Gestation is a word describing the pregnancy for animals, and you can use 'gestation period' to describe how long a pregnancy generally takes for a species. I'd like to know if there's a corollary ...
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Does the testicle's temperature increases with the body temperature during a high fever?

The testes is the male sexual organ. It is positioned outside the abdomen along with the scrotum. I would like to know if its temperature is independent from the body temperature due to its location.
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True definition of Biology [closed]

I just started biology and im pretty clueless on what it really means. So before you vote this question down, can you tell me what it really means. P.S. Is plate tectonics related to biology? or ...
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Are fishes evolving?

As far as I know, Fishing has been one of the important occupation since early ages, and infinite number of fishes have already been captured. As the time passes, they must've developed some sort of ...
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Organ secretions

If an animal secrets an enzyme from an organ that is entirely dedicated for the same secretion, can one or cannot one just use the gene coding for that protein to obtain the protein in vitro. How much ...
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Common genes and enzymes involved in pathogen entry into host

Many microbes like Salmonella, E.coli, Legionella pneumophila etc. enter host cells via cystoskeleton remodeling of the host cell. Do all microbes follow the same path or there are any other ways for ...
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How does life change when you dig deeper?

I've just realized that I have no idea what life / biotopes / soil looks like when you dig deeper than a few meters. I know that in the first meter of soil you can find all sorts of live animals (...
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Why do people in the scientific community use terminology such as renal, hepatic, cardiac instead of kidney, liver and heart? [closed]

Are there differences between renal, hepatic, cardiac and kidney, liver and heart? Is the "jargon" used more commonly because of tradition, or is there some definitive biological basis to it?
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Risk of autosomal dominant disorder [closed]

What can you conclude about the risk (with each pregnancy) that a couple could have a child affected with an autosomal dominant disorder if... One parent is affected (heterozygous) and the other ...
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Blood Type/Punnett Square [closed]

Male: Blood type O (Genotype written as: i^o i^o since O allele is recessive to the A and B alleles). Female: Blood type AB Draw a punnett square to show all of the possible offspring. I got Ai^o, ...
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Books for biology,popular but rigorous? [closed]

There are very goods in physics and mathematics (like Feynman lectures for exemple) that give an elementry but but broad view of their,therefore I'd like for help to find help to find a biology book ...
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Resources for interesting facts about biology [closed]

Are there resources for interesting or fun facts about biology, for example: fastest animal/bird/insect largest organ in human body largest virus largest genome largest de novo synthesized genome ...
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Are sulfates or nitrates common ions in biochemistry (specifically of the body)?

It's a rather broad question but something I'm curious about. I know sulfates tend to be very soluble ions and so don't know nitrates. I also know that phosphates are extremely common in ...
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Doesn't osmosis violate the law of conservation of energy?

Osmosis seems very counter-intuitive to me. I will try to explain my doubt with the following thought experiment: Consider a huge container divided into two by a semi-permeable membrane. We add equal ...
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Effects of exercise on the brain

I am well aware of the phenomenon of neurogenesis induced by exercise, as well as the dopamine release that results from exercise. I am really interested in neuropsychology and the effects of exercise ...
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Is it possible for any animals today to have more than one brain?

Is it possible for any organisms in the animal kingdom to have more than one brain?
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A good book for history of biology/biotechnology for lay people

I have many friends who are interested in Biology and want to know more about the subject in general (like a history of biology, from Darwin's theory, to DNA structure discovery, to the human genome ...
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