Scarification, Stratification and Germination Scarification — why scarify seeds? In a natural environment, many seeds get battered about with weather (frost, rain, fire), sand, soil particles, and birds and animals’ digestive systems. It’s called seed abrading or scarification and in the home garden the tougher seeds, which we’ve carefully harvested, may need to be roughened […]
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Communication in bees by waggle dance Domestic honey bee, Apis mellifera is a colonial insect living in hives containing one queen a fertile female ,a few drones (males) and thousands of workers (infertile females). Some 5–25% of the workers in the hive are scouts. Their job is to search for new sources of food for
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Genetically Engineered Food Due to ever increasing population and scarcity of food stuff, the community of agriculturists continuously introducing new varieties of crops. Since 1994, they are produced in a way that is very similar to genetic engineering. The technique used in this type of crop management has been introduced to ensure farmers and merchants
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Importance of fungi as Food Fungi figure prominently in the human diet. Morels, shiitake mushrooms, chanterelles, and truffles are considered delicacies. The meadow mushroom, Agaricus campestris, appears in many dishes. Molds of the genus Penicillium ripen many cheeses. They originate in the natural environment such as the caves of Roquefort, France, where wheels of sheep
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Photostimulable Phosphor (Psp) INTRODUCTION PSP stand for “Photo Stimulable phosphor”. Computed Radiography uses very equipment similar to conventional radiography except that in place of an x-ray film to create the image,an Imaging Plate (IP) is used. The Imaging Plate is positioned in a special cassette and placed under the body part or object to be
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Tournament Scheduling There are 2 well-known types of tournament formats that sport schedulers use. Single Elimination Tournaments. Round Robin Tournaments. Single Elimination Tournaments. In this format, one defeat is enough to eliminate a team from the tournament. Scheduling a single elimination tournament is relatively easy. The first step is to get the number of teams
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Nobel Prize for work on biological clocks 2017 Medicine Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms, opening up whole new fields of research and
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Win 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry By Dubochet, Frank, Henderson Stockholm, October 4 Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy that simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “This method has moved biochemistry into a new era,”
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Facts about the Amazon Rainforest The Amazon is the world’s biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. The Amazon is a vast region that spans across eight rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory
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Green Revolution For Sustainable Development Human population explosion is occurring day and night no politician tries to speak and work on this topic due to fear of loss of their chair, uncaring the future problems which may occur in near future. We may not be able to get a place of standing even. At the
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