Recent content by Adrian

Why would anyone want to take these green pills? What's the point of limiting the people you can have fertile offspring with, besidesvthat it may satisfy certain obsessions with racial or national identity?

The typical negative effects of inbreeding become appearant with *very* small populations. As recently as about 80 years ago, people here in the rural parts of Europe lived in isolated villages or "extended communities" comprising a small number of villages of maybe a few hundred people and...

"Originally Posted by plus Do you finally admit that some families might have some combination of genes causing them to commit more crime, or to have lower IQ?" It's noteworthy that phenotypes like "high IQ" and, even more so, "predisposition to crime" are poorly defined. That plus the...

Better show them *before* it's too late.. like in elementary school... :biggrin:

This is not complete, but here are some thoughts on several of theses points: "Let's discuss the difference between evidence and interpretations of evidence — e.g., the evidence of common features (limbs or DNA)." The scientific methods *is* discussed in most schools: Observed, empirical...

Hm... interesting. Now that you say it, I do get a bit nauseaous (spelling..? lol) at times after drinking my post-workout shake which is rich in protein and simple sugars. I usually blame it on the stress and pressure on the whole gastrointestinal tract from working out... How about this...

That's what I was thinking - that would be a pretty fast digestion... I'm not sure, maybe it actually is due to blood sugar skyrocketing - but couldn't it be just the other way around? Sweet tastes in our mouth regulate insulin levels AFAIK. Eating a considerable amount of very sweet food should...

Great point, and I agree that this is an area that deserves a lot of attention in the future. So far, we've been quite busy sequencing a few genomes in the first place, identifying genes and then determining what portions of the DNA are 'junk DNA' at all. So now to the tricky part, so to speak...

'When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' I mean, we are at a point were we can use use genetics and molecular biology for diagnosis or drug development in diseases associated with only one or a very limited number of genes. So what we do is get really excited about the new...

I don't have the source handy, but I've read a while ago that the body actually estimates the caloric value of food by its volume. That means that when you're hungry, the hunger won't go away as quickly by eating 400 kcals in calorically dense food as by eating the same amount of *energy* in...

http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmaslin/ichthy/xcrtn.html That's a nice overview over osmoregulation, with two basic sketches halfway down the page.

"Most fish are confined entirely to fresh water (FW) or seawater (SW) and cannot live in or adapt to the other environment. What may be surprising is that the internal salts and organic molecules (solutes) in the blood of all bony fishes are maintained in an "intermediate" concentration (which...

A, C, T, and G are abbreviations for the 4 bases of the nucleotides of DNA: Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Guanine. A, C, U, and G are abbreviations for the 4 bases of the nucleotides of RNA: Adenine, Cytosine, Uracil, and Guanine. Just to pre-empt any possible misunderstandig :wink: ...

There were basically two main, separate efforts to determine the sequence of the human genome in the 1990s: One by the publicly funded Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and one by the private, for-profit company Celera Genomics and its founder, J. Craig Venter. Using sophisticated methods...