Plants are living and are biotic factors along with all other living organisms. Abiotic factors include water, temperature, soil, salinity,... View Article
The water potential ( ) of pure water is the greatest. When a solute is dissolved in water, it reduces the water concentration or kinetic energy... View Article
DNA is the genetic material, which gets inherited from parents to offspring in all living organisms. Some viruses contain RNA as genetic... View Article
ATP is adenosine triphosphate. It is a nucleoside triphosphate, made up of nitrogenous base adenine, ribose sugar and triphosphate. ATP is the... View Article
Animals belonging to the phylum Platyhelminthes are also called flatworms due to dorsoventrally flattened bodies. Examples are liver fluke,... View Article
Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae are autotrophs and carry out photosynthesis. Some of the cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen to ammonia, e.g.... View Article
Cellular respiration occurs in the cytoplasm and mitochondria. Glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm and the Krebs cycle occurs in the mitochondria... View Article
The brain stem controls breathing. It is made up of the midbrain, pons and medulla. The brain stem connects the brain to the spinal cord.... View Article
RBCs, WBCs and platelets account for 45% of the blood, collectively. The normal range of platelets or thrombocytes present in the blood is... View Article
Yes, urea is the main nitrogenous waste in mammals, terrestrial amphibians and marine fishes. They are known as ureotelic. Urea is produced in... View Article
Cellular respiration can occur aerobically using oxygen or anaerobically without oxygen. ATP formed during aerobic respiration is much more than... View Article
Around 99 percent of water absorbed by plants is estimated to be lost during transpiration. Further reading: Flashcards Of Biology For NEET... View Article
Water and nutrients are absorbed by plants through root hairs. Root hairs are extensions of root epidermis and they increase the surface area of... View Article
Enzymes are biological catalysts, most of the enzymes are proteins and like other proteins enzymes also have secondary and tertiary structure.... View Article
Water movement through xylem is important for long-distance transport of essential minerals and nutrients from the soil to other parts of the... View Article
Skin colour is a phenotype. Phenotype refers to the observable traits in an organism, such as physical or biochemical traits. Phenotype is a... View Article
Comparative anatomy is important in evolutionary studies and provides evidence of evolution, such as homologous organs, analogous organs, etc. It... View Article
Crossing over and recombination occurs during meiosis I, they are correlated. Recombination of genes in the gametes is the result of crossing... View Article
DNA replication results in the duplication of DNA content in the cell, which is essential to maintain genetic continuity in the newly formed cell... View Article