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Why isn't a virus “alive”?

virology taxonomy virus nomenclature
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What is the difference between local and global sequence alignments?

bioinformatics sequence-analysis sequence-alignment
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Why do parasites sometimes kill their hosts?

evolution zoology parasitology
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How statistically significant was the “sweaty T-shirt” experiment?

statistics sensation peer-review-journal
Jan 1 '19 at 8:12 Community♦ 1
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Why do specifically bananas go brown quicker in the fridge?

biochemistry molecular-biology cell-biology food
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How can Valonia ventricosa cells get so big?

cell-biology botany microbiology plant-physiology structural-biology
Jul 26 '19 at 8:50 Community♦ 1
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How does paracetamol work?

biochemistry pharmacology literature pharmacodynamics
Feb 4 '20 at 13:17 James 11k
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Why and how does uniprot list around 150,000 proteins in the human genome?

bioinformatics proteins database isoforms
Jan 26 '18 at 10:36 Jerven 326
 
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What is the transmembrane 'Positive-Inside Rule' nowadays? Has the definition changed over time?

biochemistry proteins biophysics cell-membrane structural-biology
May 4 '16 at 6:32 Community♦ 1
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Can bacteria release free DNA into their environment?

genetics microbiology bacteriology
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What's the difference between shotgun sequencing and clone based sequencing?

genetics molecular-biology molecular-genetics dna-sequencing
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Why do neurones use chemical signalling at synaptic junctions?

biochemistry neuroscience molecular-biology molecular-evolution
Jul 14 '17 at 23:14 Luke 658
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What is a subspecies?

zoology taxonomy nomenclature
Apr 12 '17 at 12:36 Robert McFetridge 1
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What is the difference between organelle membranes?

biochemistry cell-biology biophysics cell-membrane literature
May 3 '16 at 10:10 James 11k
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How does membrane potential vary between intraceullar membranes and the cellular membrane?

biochemistry biophysics cell-membrane literature
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What are the benefits of elucidating the crystal structure of a protein?

literature structural-biology xray-crystallography
Jul 6 '18 at 12:41 James 11k
 
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Why do men grow facial hair?

human-biology zoology human-anatomy human-genetics
Feb 7 at 15:29 acvill 4,151
 
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What about 23andMe's SNP test gives it such bad efficacy as a diagnostic tool?

genomics human-genome snp
Jul 10 '18 at 19:41 R Stephan 3,790
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How can bats hear such high frequencies?

zoology anatomy sensation hearing senses
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Is using Hidden Markov Models to find homologues sensible in abstract, short sequences?

biochemistry bioinformatics proteins protein-folding sequence-alignment
Jun 20 '15 at 17:21 Community♦ 1
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Is there a difference between polarity and hydrophobicity?

biochemistry proteins
Nov 11 '14 at 13:27 WYSIWYG 34.6k
 
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Is there a biological explanation for perceived altered cognition whilst on cannabis?

biochemistry neuroscience pharmacology toxicology literature
Mar 10 at 14:13 James 11k
 
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How did the endoplasmic reticulum come to be?

evolution cell-biology cell-membrane literature
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Do people with congenital analgesia feel cold?

physiology human-anatomy pathology neuroanatomy pain
Aug 24 '15 at 6:01 Community♦ 1
 
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Where do the electrons and protons formed from biological reactions go?

biochemistry cell-biology proteins
Sep 22 '14 at 15:23 Alan Boyd 22.5k
 
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How many residues can a reliable ab initio structural model contain?

bioinformatics structural-biology computational-model
Feb 19 '19 at 12:32 James 11k
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Why are transmembrane proteins difficult to crystallise?

cell-biology proteins xray-crystallography
Jul 21 '17 at 23:00 shigeta 27.2k
 
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Dyes to bind to double stranded DNA?

biochemistry microscopy
Nov 1 '16 at 13:35 James 11k
 
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Which literature/study/myth spurred the idea that urine is sterile?

human-biology microbiology literature
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Is there a difference in cytoplasmic pH between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

biochemistry cell-biology literature
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