Biology Definition and 572 Threads

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So how do you actually learn about biology? Like.. I am going to graduate with a degree in biology, and I will have taken the following classes: Biol 1 and 2 (the two intros) Genetics Evolution Animal Behavior Microbiology Histology A basic A&P class Ecology Parasitology And I...

We were learning about birth defects in Biology. Stuff about genetics like Down Syndrome, Mobius, that usually lead to an extra/less chromosome causing retardation. Is there a way one can become mentally retarded? I mean, without multiple concussions or whacks/impacts to the head...

Can someone pull a rabbit out of a hat for me & explain why just because an object (like a cell or an animal) gets bigger, its surface area doesn't get proportionally bigger? I made myself a little chart where I took a sphere & found the vol & the s.a. at 1 cm radius, at 2 cm radius, and 3 cm...

I'm crazy. I moved from the US back to the Netherlands to start a research career here, but I am not satisfied and want to move back to the US.. I want to know which Universities are known for their Biology programs and if those are nice cities to live in. I could just stop working on...

Post any questions you have about Molecular Biology in here (or anything related...Microbiology, lab techniques, experiments etc). Whether you want to know something specific (What is a nucleotide? for example), or something broad (What are RFLP's? for example). This thread could be useful to...

This is about your opinion, how do you feel about biology. Do you think the topic is high-tech science, or do you feel it is just people working outside in a field, writing down their observations?

Here is a discussion of a recent experiment paralleling Libet's famous one of 20 years ago. Our free will is "spread out" (Dennet) in time. http://www.carlzimmer.com/blog/C1015037710/E317172943/index.html

[SOLVED] PhD in Biology Okay, well I'm new to the forum and I'm a little confused about majoring in bio. My situation is that my family is kind of middle-classed, we do well I guess, have a house, my father only works, blah blah.. Now I want to help my Dad with our expenses, but my main...

Biology Vs Electronics ! Hi! I am not a “Biology” man! But I have an interesting question that I always think of: We have seen many sci-fi usually Asimov stories that robots are becoming - humans! These homo sapiens as far as I know very complex system specially the brain – nervous system...

Post anything you know about any other real life applications to Mathematics.

here is a case i need to diagnose: A man was finally encouraged by his wife to go to the doctor. The man was experiencing headaches and loss of his peripheral vision. What alarmed him though was that he was producing breast milk. The doctor asked him waht medication he was on and he told the...

I've just finished 1st year of my science degree, supposedly where they give you a taste of everything possible, and you get to decide what to specialise in. The problem is, I like pretty much all of it ! I'm having real trouble with what majors to choose from. I know I want to major in...

I am wondering, does it give one an edge to know programming language in Biomolecular Sciences? For instance if a certain analysis, maybe statistical, needs to be done.. and you can write your own little program.. If so, which languages would be the best to master? Visual Basics, C++, Oracle..?

Hi all, I've been reading through these forums for a while now. I don't post, but I just like to watch what discussions are occurring. I will say that the level of intelligence here is intimidating! Though at the same time, it's also challenging because I feel that whatever query I have will...

Has biology ever predicted an organisms action exactly correctly? meaning, has biology ever reduced an organism down to an equation, and had it work multiple times in experiments, and then singled out variables and applied them to other experiments? if biology hasnt, how close has it...

Take a look at this website, it has some really neat Clips, Stills, and Slides of small life forms: http://www.cytographics.com/Especially nice is the video of Xenopus (toad) eggs. The video illustrate, how perfectly times embyonic development is, since three three eggs were fertilized at the...

I have been considering starting a series of threads (don't worry, there won't be too many of them) all relating to some Technical aspects of Molecular Biology. I have thought of doing this for 2 reasons. Firstly, some people might be interested in learning about various topics in molecular...

I have read a surprising theory about the massive Permian extinction at http://www.nature.com/nsu/030818/030818-16.html. Briefly, Gregory Ryskin of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, argues that a tremendous explosion of the methane dissolved under the seas has caused the...

Here is a strange question :/ Worms wriggle up to the grounds surface when it is raining how do they know this or even what direction to go in?

Anybody know where I can find a good biology forum? One that discusses issues in detail; for example, in clearing certain concepts up? Kind of like physicsforum, except biologyforum.

I would normally post this kind of thing in the PS section, but it seems that we must have something unusual here. What do you good people make of this? Due to the testing that has allegedly already been done, I am assuming that this is not a hoax. http://www.starchildproject.com/