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Definition and difference between genotype, phenotype and alleles.

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Medical How Do We Perceive the World: Are Our Eyes Better Than Cameras?

  • Routaran
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How to lose 10–20 lbs and reach single digit body fat at 6'1" and 180 lbs

  • kraphysics
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Is Muesli Alone Sufficient for a Healthy Diet?

  • wolram
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Medical But I digress...Explore the Intricacies of Swine Anatomy with Visible Body 3D!

  • rhody
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Stars with 6 legs in seawater aquarium

  • DrDu
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What is the continuum of sexual preference and its role in evolution?

  • nobahar
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Medical What is the Red Patch Under My Eye After Septoplasty Surgery?

  • KingNothing
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How did lab yeast make the evolutionary leap to multicellularity?

  • Pythagorean
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Why is blood plasma called a plasma?

  • Edi
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How Do the Brain and Mind Interact?

  • nouveau_riche
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Medical What other senses are logarithmic?

  • Pengwuino
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What are the scientific tests for measuring brain memory capacity?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Great evolutionary history stories

  • blarznik
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Deep water organisms (Very Deep)

  • Osviux
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Why are bugs attracted to the light?

  • maverick_starstrider
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Toxicity - Superglue (cyanoacrylate) used to cover cut skin.

  • Ouabache
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Telomeres of neurons: Do they also become more short?

  • limarodessa
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Multicellularity: How Do They Determine It Evolved 20+ Times?

  • Patzee
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Medical Sleep, How little is too little

  • rollcast
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Science-related photos and images to share

  • ~christina~
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Medical Elbow Injury: A Nervous Sound and My Story

  • mayjan
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Medical Do Fat Cells Decrease with Long-Term Weight Loss?

  • ForMyThunder
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Signal Transduction: How Cells Process Thousands of Signals

  • phaser88
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Medical Is alcohol the most destructive drug on the planet?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Medical Are there still undiscovered hormones in the human body?

  • lisab
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How do plants use photoperiodism to sense changes in their environment?

  • profemina
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Safety of meat synthesized from sewage nutrients

  • Evo
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Universe from Order to DisOrder - Evolutionary Mishaps

  • bugatti79
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Full-Atom Molecular Dynamics embryo -> adult?

  • JohnT89
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Medical TED Video: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future?

  • rhody
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Why does my orchid have green marks on white petals?

  • Andre
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Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers

  • vanmaiden
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ERCC2, Mutation, and Evolution?

  • pctopgs
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Can current evolutionary theory explain identical twins and intersex babies?

  • GreatBigBore
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Medical Can I have a growth spurt at 17 with closed growth plates?

  • jackys
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How did early tall humans survive as long-distance hunters?

  • RufusDawes
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How many watts does the human body use

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Custom Nucleotide Sequence Codons?

  • gf11221
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Medical Why Can I See Inside a Cylinder with One Eye Closed?

  • gabe1scott
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Medical When Does Discomfort from a Second Degree Burn Go Away?

  • homeremedy
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Watch Chimpanzees Laughing - An Amazing Ape Moment

  • marcus
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Medical How to think about minds in nature? What do they do?

  • cosmographer
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Medical Falling asleep with TV on linked to depression, obesity and other issues

  • Q_Goest
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What Causes Species to Multiply?

  • omerusta
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Mouse Regeneration: Could It Work in Humans?

  • evolution12
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Medical Do you remember everything perceived during sleep if memory worked normally?

  • candydude357
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Transient electric nanotubes connect non-neuronal cells

  • Pythagorean
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Is there a way to make phylogenetic trees more readable?

  • Simfish
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Medical Do girls bruise more easily, and if so why?

  • pergradus
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Can nootropics help with motivation and what are the side effects?

  • ƒ(x)
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Medical Is Work-Related Eye Strain Causing Long-Term Vision Issues?

  • flyingpig
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Sad: Two famous animals pass away

  • Evo
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Medical Is There a Permanent Solution for Sinus Congestion?

  • ThomasEdison
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Medical Space Exploration: Reinforcing Bones with Metal Plating?

  • aquitaine
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Medical Measuring Venous Pressure to 5mm Hg

  • jubaaa
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What Will Happen to Medo the Baby Bear When He Grows Up?

  • Evo
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Medical How can I help my autistic friend who gets upset during conversations?

  • marinebiopink
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Genetic structure of West Eurasians

  • wasteofo2
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Do species change their taxonomic rank as they evolve?

  • pctopgs
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Why are people afraid of cell phone radiation?

  • daniel_i_l
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Toxicology resources and databases

  • Simfish
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Medical 1/2 of all people develop some form of cancer within their lifetime?

  • FishmanGeertz
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Why do dogs and other animals urinate on plants and trees?

  • Ynsgfnsv
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Have you ever heard of a hedgehoglet orphangarten?

  • arildno
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Animal Rights Dummies On Whales Wars

  • GCT
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Can magnetic pole shifts drive evolution in humans?

  • Ynsgfnsv
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Reasons for the Death of Lizards in India and Their Average Lifespan

  • causalset
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Apes evolving from canids, rather than monkeys.

  • Dremmer
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Brain Use Myth: 10% Capacity or False?

  • Dymond
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Campbell and Reece 8th edition Cell Biology

  • Stephen1993
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Can Near-Death Experiences Inspire a Fear of Rejoining Society?

  • Danger
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Medical How much does the blood pressure in your brain increase?

  • jubaaa
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Humans only use 20-30% of their brain

  • KingNothing
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Nitrogen Respiration: What Lifeforms Could Be Like

  • Katamari
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Medical Why can't I tell my body what to do

  • Pengwuino
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Causes of Human Aging: What We Know

  • LightningSpec
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Can DNA Really Teleport Itself According to Luc Montagnier's Research?

  • griswold
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Medical Thinking purely in words, how this works

  • Intotouch
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Medical Permanent muscle loss in zero-g

  • GRB 080319B
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Medical Curing a Cold: A Mom's French Fry Remedy

  • Bipolarity
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Is there a name for this type of stuttering while writing?

  • KrisOhn
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How long until we can grow viable tissues and organs using stem cells?

  • evolution12
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Why does salt on a wound cause more pain?

  • Link
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Medical Is it worth trying to cure cancer?

  • epsilonjon
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Medical How Do Various States and Forms of Consciousness Differ?

  • candydude357
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Can we see the interactions between antigens and antibodies in a lab?

  • Amalan
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Medical Why all medicines have side effects?

  • ikos9lives
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Medical How do xray machines produce xrays?

  • grimsheep
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Medical Is There Such a Thing as Erythrocyte Cancer?

  • madcat8000
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TED Video: Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons

  • rhody
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Medical Suffering from Kidney Stones: My Story

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Chromatid Questions: What, Why, How, 2 Sets, Homologous

  • isyang94
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Why dna polymerase require a primer but rna polymerase don't?

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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How much sleep do you need in school?

  • theloathedone
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Medical Collapsed after just 40ml bloodloss

  • Ryan_m_b
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Why is there starvation in human populations?

  • m.e.t.a.
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Medical Alpha vs beta vs gamma radiation: which damages human cells most?

  • joeyjo100
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Medical 'Black Mist' Australia 1953, fallout contamination.

  • Triangled.
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