Palaeontology or Paleontology is the scientific study of the history of life on Earth, which is based on fossils. It also deals with the study of... View Article
The theory of evolution is important as it explains: The origin of the earth How lives on earth evolved How the world came into existence.... View Article
The butterfly has a four staged life cycle. Stage 1:The Egg Stage 2:The Larva (Caterpillar) Stage 3: The Pupa (Chrysalis) Stage 4:The Adult... View Article
Autotrophs are those organisms which synthesize their own food with the help of solar energy from inorganic raw materials like CO2 and water. All... View Article
Yes. Sclerenchyma cells have lignified, thickened, secondary walls, which often expire or break down when they mature. Sclerenchyma provides the... View Article
The male accessory glands are the part of the male reproductive system. Male accessory glands include seminal vesicles, bulbourethral glands and... View Article
In plants, the produced glucose is used for energy and the preparation of other substances like cellulose and starch. Explore more NEET questions... View Article
Transpiration is a necessary process as it serves many purposes. Transpiration provides the necessary driving force, i.e. transpiration pull for... View Article
The outcome of a PCR can be assessed by many means. Most regularly, amplified DNA fragments are referred to as agarose gel electrophoresis - a... View Article
The three parameters which are characteristic for DNA extraction procedures are as follows - DNA quality - target sequences for analyses... View Article
Listed below are the three steps of comprehensive GMO analysis techniques, they are - Detection - determining if a product has GMO material in... View Article
Somatic cell cloning is based on the process of eliminating the DNA from an unfertilized oocyte and substituting it with the DNA acquired from a... View Article
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a widely used marker protein in modern biological research. The protein displays green fluorescence when it is... View Article
The luciferase (luc) gene is isolated from Photinus pyralis. It encodes the enzyme which catalyzes the ATP/oxygen-dependent oxidation of the... View Article
Yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC) are constructed by joining the elements needed for segregation and replication of yeast chromosomes (natural)... View Article
Chargaff put forward some empirical rules about the amounts of each component of DNA, they are - The net amount of pyrimidine nucleotides... View Article
The techniques involved in protein engineering essentially are based on recombinant DNA technology. It involves - For the formation of a... View Article
Cytoplasm is everything in the cell membrane that is not the nucleus. Cytoplasm = organelles+cytosol. The cytosol is the jelly-like mixture... View Article
While the xylem is composed of dead cells with a thick cell lining, the phloem is composed of living cells, enabling the movement of food from... View Article
