Chemistry plays an important part in studying Biology. It answers some questions that Biology could not explain alone. Questions like: How does an organism convert foods for energy? How do plants use sunlight and water into all the things that cells needed to grow and reproduce? How does the basic unit of life passed through generation to the next? Here are some contributions of Chemistry in Biology: • Within atomic theory‚ chemistry contributes towards biology in the understanding of atoms and elements
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Gas exchange is a biological process that is essential for the survival of an organism. The purpose of this process is to obtain oxygen from the environment (which is necessary for cellular respiration‚ and to dispose of CO2‚ a bi product of respiration. An efficient gas exchange system has 3 requirements. It must have a large surface area over which the gases can diffuse. A large surface area maximises the amount of area available for the gases to exchange. It must also be moist. Oxygen must first
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MOTIVATIONAL LECTURE TO THE STUDENTS OF COLLEGES TO JOIN AEC Introduction 1. It gives me immense pleasure to stand before you since you are young‚ energetic‚ enthusiastic and most importantly you are the future of India‚ my motherland. It is you who have to hold the rein now and guide the country towards development and progress. As people do predict that India – a future Super Power‚ is because of the younger generation like you‚ who are patriotic‚ honest‚ have the zeal and
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Vol 455 | 11 September 2008 | doi:10.1038/nature07271 ARTICLES Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching ` Victoria Gomez-Roldan1‚ Soraya Fermas2‚ Philip B. Brewer3‚ Virginie Puech-Pages1‚ Elizabeth A. Dun3‚ Jean-Paul Pillot2‚ Fabien Letisse4‚ Radoslava Matusova5‚ Saida Danoun1‚ Jean-Charles Portais4‚ ´ Harro Bouwmeester5‚6‚ Guillaume Becard1‚ Christine A. Beveridge3‚7*‚ Catherine Rameau2* & Soizic F. Rochange1* A carotenoid-derived hormonal signal that inhibits shoot branching in plants
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Car ib b e an Se con d ar y Ed ucat ion Ce r t if icat e ® CSEC® BIOLOGY SYLLABUS a) Effective for examinations from May–June 2015 NCH 2.SYLLABUS CXC 20/G/SYLL 13 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or
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9.16 Explain why human skin coloration is not sufficiently explained by polygenic inheritance. -Polygenic inheritance is the additive effects of two or more genes on a single phenotypic characteristic. 9.17 Describe the limits‚ benefits‚ and ethical challenges of genetic testing. -Genetic testing can fall into one of the five categories: carrier testing‚ diagnostic testing‚ prenatal testing‚ newborn screening‚ and predictive testing. Carrier testing is designed to determine whether a person
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32.2.2 Segmentation allowed for redundant systems and improved locomotion Hox genes cause segmentation development 2 advantage of Hox genes Highly segmented animals‚ usually have nearly complete set of organs in theirs each segment of body. This result to less damage in their body‚ since other segment duplicate the damage segment functions Locomotion is more efficient‚ since partitions isolate the segment can contract and expand autonomously. 32.3. The Classification of Animals Animals divided
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ECOSYSTEM. -Components of an ecosystem‚ Groups of interacting plants and animals from populations‚ and two or more populations in the same place at the same time form communities. The community forms the living‚ or biotic part of the ecosystem. Energy‚ Minerals‚ Nutrients and water from the non-living or abiotic components. 1. Inorganic substances (C‚N‚CO2‚H20 etc) incolved in material cycles. 2. Organic compounds (Proteins‚ Carbohydrates‚ lipids‚ humic substances etc.) that link biotic and abiotic
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IODINE TEST FOR STARCH The Iodine test is used to test for the presence of starch. Iodine solution — iodine dissolved in an aqueous solution of potassium iodide — reacts with the starch producing a purple black color. The colour can be detected visually with concentrations of iodine as low as 0.00002M at 20°C. However the intensity of the colour decreases with increasing temperature and with the presence of water-miscible‚ organic solvents such as ethanol. Also the test cannot be done at very low
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Extended experimental investigation: effects on membranes of environmental stress Background It is not possible to observe membranes directly‚ so this investigation is an indirect study of the effects of different substances and treatments on living beetroot cells. Beetroot cells have been chosen for this activity because each beetroot cell has a large central vacuole bounded by a membrane (Figure 1). Contained in the vacuole is the red pigment anthocyanin‚ which gives the beetroot its typical
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