Seaweed extracts boost the yield of crops. It improves the response/resistance of plants to diseases and frosts and increases the uptake of... View Article
Micronutrients are those nutrients that the body needs in smaller amounts. Micronutrients are one of the major groups of nutrients the body... View Article
Some factors affecting the soil micronutrient profile is the extensive cultivation of fertilizer-responsive, high-yielding variants on marginal... View Article
The process of food fortification is fast being recognized as one of the effective modes of delivering micronutrients. This process of food... View Article
Fortifying food is the enrichment of food by adding micronutrients to it. The procedure can be performed by public health officials, food... View Article
Food products which have nutrients added to them, which are not naturally occurring in them are fortified foods. Such food items aim to and... View Article
Rhesus (Rh) factor is an inherited protein present on the surface of red blood cells. You are Rh positive if your blood has this protein and Rh... View Article
The Hardy Weinberg equilibrium holds good in a population if the mutation is absent and the population structure is absent (random mating), also... View Article
Haemophilia is a genetically transmitted disease. Here, one fails to produce a specific component responsible for clotting of blood. Some... View Article
Anticodons are trinucleotide sequences that are complementary to their corresponding codon in a mRNA (messenger RNA) sequence. Anticodons are... View Article
As per recent studies, it is revealed that the brain produces new cells (as many as 1500 new neurons every day in the dentate gyrus of the... View Article
For a material to be genetic material, it has to replicate, it must be stable both structurally and chemically stable. Furthermore, it must be... View Article
Blood type comprises two blood groups - Rh and ABO. The types are on the basis of antigens found on the surface of your blood cells. The ABO... View Article
Genome is the genetic constituency of an entity. It comprises DNA (in some viruses, the RNA), genes and other components which govern the... View Article
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) are nucleic acids containing genetic information for functioning and development of living entities. All known... View Article
It is not possible for two 'unmixed' parents having straight-hair to reproduce an offspring with curly hair. Having said that, two parents,... View Article
Operon consists of many structural genes, which are regulated by a single promoter, an operator and repressor. An operon is made up of three main... View Article
Genetic variation is caused due to mutation and recombination at the time of meiosis. Random mating and fertilisation also causes genetic... View Article
The DNA is genetic material, which carries genetic information. It is associated with histone proteins and packaged inside the nucleus as... View Article
Lactose acts as an inducer of lac operon because it binds to the repressor protein and prevents it from binding to the operator. In absence of an... View Article
