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Me is right Me is.....It's red blood cells...RBC's that get broken down. Their correct medical name is erythrocytes but on most medical forms and in conversation they are normally referred to as RBC 's cos it's easier. Likewise, white blood cells ... more
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As the mother of "identical" twins, I can assure you that they are NOT necessarily identical. The term identical is misleading and inaccurate. The accurate term is monozygotic, meaning from one zygote or fertilized egg. Depending on when the zygote ... more
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If genetic engineering were to be able to come up with cures for diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Ms and a host of others, as well as provide for good diets for a larger number of people, plus killing of the malaria parasite, would you care about ... more
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An iShoe collects enough data every minute to overload the hard drive on my first computer. Whether you're studying human physiology or the mouse genome, 21st-century computation gives us the agility to handle huge data sets and to capture at least ... more
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Very different between heterozygous and monozygous... Homozygous is the geneotype (combination of the pair of alleles) where both alleles are the same (recessive and recessive or dominant and dominant) Heterozygous is the genotype where both ... more
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As mentioned, male seahorses still produce sperm, and the female still produces the eggs. The males are just holding the eggs until they hatch. If you look at related species, such as a sea dragon, it makes a little more sense. A sea dragon male ... more
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1. Does my college choice matter when it comes to a good beneficial education? Would going to a community college for Biology/Chemistry be a bad choice for me? You need to be in a four year college with a strong pre-medical education probram. 3. ... more
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Incoming students are initially assigned an advisor in the biology faculty. You are however, free to change your advisor. In fact, we encourage students to get to know the entire faculty in the department. ... more
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If the student takes the AP exam, that is their final exam. There is an in- class practice AP exam that counts as a final in the fourth quarter grade. ... more
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Index fossils are fossilized remains of animals or plants which represent a specific time period in the history of Earth. Paleontologists use index fossils to help date unidentified fossils.HistoryFrench naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) ... more
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