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54 Questions

Why isn't a virus “alive”?

What is the difference between local and global sequence alignments?

Why do parasites sometimes kill their hosts?

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

Why do specifically bananas go brown quicker in the fridge?

How can Valonia ventricosa cells get so big?

How does paracetamol work?

Why and how does uniprot list around 150,000 proteins in the human genome?

What is the transmembrane 'Positive-Inside Rule' nowadays? Has the definition changed over time?

Can bacteria release free DNA into their environment?

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

What is a subspecies?

What is the difference between organelle membranes?

How does membrane potential vary between intraceullar membranes and the cellular membrane?

What are the benefits of elucidating the crystal structure of a protein?

Why do neurones use chemical signalling at synaptic junctions?

What about 23andMe's SNP test gives it such bad efficacy as a diagnostic tool?

How can bats hear such high frequencies?

Is using Hidden Markov Models to find homologues sensible in abstract, short sequences?

How did the endoplasmic reticulum come to be?

Do people with congenital analgesia feel cold?

Is there a difference between polarity and hydrophobicity?

Where do the electrons and protons formed from biological reactions go?

How many residues can a reliable ab initio structural model contain?

Why are transmembrane proteins difficult to crystallise?

Dyes to bind to double stranded DNA?

Is there a biological explanation for perceived deeper cognition whilst on cannabis?

Which literature/study/myth spurred the idea that urine is sterile?

Is there a difference in cytoplasmic pH between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

Why do men grow facial hair?