Recent content by bross7

Yes, but. Get in touch with your family physician and they can direct you to a genetic counselor who can offer you detailed information on available tests. They aren't prevalent because of the risks associated with the results. A lot of the screens are still unrealiable at this point so you...

What is your running form? Are you taking long strides or short strides. Shorter strides are better for distance running. You want compact, not elongated because you are expending more energy. What is your speed. Are you running the 8 mile trail at the same speed as the 3-4 mile trail...

Just did a quick search and while the papers I pulled up were somewhat old, mostly 70s/80s, Bieuret can be used with spectrophotometry. The intensity of the colour change is proportional to the amount of protein present.

Once the function of the gene is known, absolutely. There are databases for known genes and their function on the internet. From the sequence, if you find a gene in another organism that has a similar function you can predict that it probably has a similar role in the organism of your...

I don't think it's unrealistic, but I think the data may be merging other factors into the equation for the total extinction rate. There has been a fairly steady rise in extinction usually blamed on "human interference" which probably accounts for a lot of the extinction that would be included...

To go along with the bacteriochlorophyll wikipedia list, this is the taxa for phototrophic bacteria. http://www.the-icsp.org/taxa/phototrophlist.htm"

I don't think that there is anything wrong with what was stated. There definitely seems to be heritability in terms of general body structure. But overall saying if you are fat = you have genes for being fat would be wrong. There are far too many people who will use the genetic excuse, and...

I can't verify it for cochroaches, but I can say that this does work quite well for ant infestations. Silly little buggers cause their own demise by bringing the stuff to their queen.

I don't know if anyone can elaborate on these situations, but I have a difficult time understanding how the "extra time" thing works because of a medical condition. Is there any asterisk put beside the student's transcript in this case when looking at achievements? In some ways I understand...

Huh? Not difficult to prove evolution isn't true? Perhaps you can share how this is the case with me.

Wow, that would be insane if that was the actual requirement. The number of PhD's would plummet.

I would argue that it is memorized more based on how few people actually can prove what they do. Lot's of people know how to take derivatives, but as them to prove it and many of them can't. I remember in high school that proofs always was the weakest unit for most people (as a non-math major...

I would argue that it is still quite the contrary. Big, yet simplified, projects may be less common, but the research into the specifics of science is providing a wide variety of discoveries. It's just that this type of stuff doesn't interest the general public, it doesn't mean that science...

And depending on where you are there may not be enough TA/RA postitions available for all the graduate students. It would depend on the size of the department you are enrolled in. I know personally, at the school I am currently enrolled in, that there are not enough TA positions and that a...

You are being naive if you think any government is above doing something harmful to the a specific area of the population for the benefit of plans. It happens all the time, so I don't know why people get upset if the US government is accussed of this. I haven't seen enough evidence that...