Global warming causes considerable harm to the health, it increases public health challenges such as heat aggravated illness, vector-borne... View Article
Some theories, loosely based on science, propose that global warming may or may not lead to the onset of a new ice age. It is however debatable.... View Article
Researchers consider humans today to be the primary cause of global warming as they indulge in activities that contribute to putting excess... View Article
Carbon cycle and global warming are connected. The carbon cycle regulates the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide... View Article
Fostering livestock for eggs, meat and milk produces about 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, they use close to 70% of the... View Article
30% of the global emissions leads to climate change, as per a panel on climate change which attributes to agricultural activities, which is... View Article
Mikhail Chailakhyan in 1936 demonstrated that flowering can be induced by graft transmission. He explained that it was due to plant hormone which... View Article
Gibberellin was discovered by E. Kurosawa in 1926 while investigating foolish seedling (bakanae) disease. It was caused by a fungus Gibberella... View Article
F. Skoog, C. Miller and co-workers discovered cytokinins in 1955. They termed it kinetin, which promotes cytokinesis. It is an adenine derivative... View Article
Walther Flemming discovered chromatin in 1880. He observed the fibrous network present in the nucleus and termed it chromatin (stainable... View Article
The C4 pathway was discovered by M. D. Hatch and C. R. Slack in 1966. It is also known as the Hatch-Slack pathway. It is the pathway of carbon... View Article
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria in 1676. He referred to them as dierkens, i.e. small animals or animalcules in english. Further... View Article
Eduard Tangl discovered the symplastic pathway in 1879 and later Hanstein coined the term ‘symplast’ in 1880. Münch coined the term ‘apoplast’ in... View Article
The term ‘systematics’ was coined by Carl Linnaeus. It is derived from the word ‘systema’, which means orderly arrangement. In his book “Systema... View Article
The term ‘pteridophytes’ was coined by Haeckel. Pteridophytes are vascular plants but do not produce flowers or seeds. They reproduce by spores.... View Article
The term ‘protista’ was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. Protists are unicellular eukaryotes. They are autotrophs as well as heterotrophs and... View Article
Oxygen is released by the splitting of water in photosynthetic electron transport reactions. Carbon fixation results in the production of sugar... View Article
Carbon fixation occurs predominantly by photosynthesis performed by cyanobacteria, phytoplankton, algae and plants. Around 258 billion tons of... View Article
Prokaryotes lack membrane-bound organelles. They lack chloroplasts. Photosynthetic pigments are present in the foldings of plasma membranes. They... View Article
Carbon fixation is the process by which plants fix inorganic carbon to produce organic compounds. It is the light independent or dark reaction of... View Article
