Rhizopus are saprophytic fungus growing on dead organic matter. Mycelium is distinguished into three types of stolons, hyphae rhizoidal and... View Article
Photosynthetic bacteria have chromatophores. These are membrane bound vesicular structures, extensions of cytoplasmic membranes. It contains... View Article
Bacterial cytoplasm typically possesses several small, distinct fragments of DNA known as plasmids. They are circular DNA units. They are 1/100... View Article
Typically, bacteria do not survive in antibiotic containing medium. However, if they do so they must have obtained resistance against that... View Article
Viruses comprise a protein coat, capsid. It encloses a single type of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA. They lack enzymes for the synthesis of... View Article
The Cyathus is called bird's nest fungi while Lycoperdon is known as puff balls. Both of these fungi relate to the group of basidiomycetes or... View Article
The causative of Black stem rust is Puccinia graminis tritici. Its genus includes close to 700 species, that are known to produce the rust... View Article
Mesosome is a characteristic, folded invaginations, specialization of the cell membrane of bacteria which develops as an ingrowth. It comprises... View Article
The Tobacco mosaic virus is an RNA virus causing tobacco mosaic disease. They have a single-stranded coiled RNA molecule as their genetic... View Article
Cytochromes are typically the membrane bound hemoproteins. It contains heme groups, and performs the transport of electrons. The heme group is an... View Article
Amino acids are usually synthesized from α-Âketoglutaric acid. It is the precursor of amino acids. Krebs cycle yields a five-carbon compound, it... View Article
Oxygen, Carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen are referred to as the four big elements of the living body. It accounts for close to 99% of the mass of... View Article
Proteins are able to exhibit extreme diversity as there exist varying sequences and proportions of twenty amino acids in the protein molecule.... View Article
Lactose is a compound of glucose and galactose. Commonly known as milk sugar, Lactose is a disaccharide. Lactase is required to digest lactose.... View Article
Glycoproteins are proteins containing sugars moiety. Examples of glycoproteins include membrane proteins, immunoglobulins, hormones and muscle... View Article
End product inhibition or Feedback inhibition is the inhibition of the action of an enzyme which catalyzes a few early reactions of the series by... View Article
All molecules need some amount of energy for activation, in order to overcome the energy barrier before they can react. This energy is the... View Article
Lipid molecules are sparingly soluble or insoluble in water, however, they are freely soluble in organic solvents such as benzene, ether and... View Article
Minor elements are essential in the quantity of less than milligram/gram of dry matter, however, they are required for proper development and... View Article
Copper is linked as an activator with tyrosinase. The 2 copper atoms in the active site of tyrosinase enzymes associate with dioxygen forming an... View Article
