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Coming to Life by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
epub |eng | | Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Cell Death. When the divisions of cells in a tissue are completed, a stop signal tells the cell to rest. The stop signal has to be inactivated by a growth ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 22,2020 )
Marine Biology by Philip V. Mladenov
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Philip V. Mladenov

Sexual reproduction in corals Reef-building corals can disperse from the parent colony and colonize new habitats through sexual reproduction. Most species of coral are hermaphroditic—able to produce both eggs and ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 22,2020 )
The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-04 | Author:Matthew Cobb

* Look it up. It’s exactly the right word. † ‘Engram’, meaning the physical trace of a memory, was coined in German in 1904 by the zoologist Richard Semon, and ...
( Category: Biology March 22,2020 )
Skeletal Tissue Mechanics by R. Bruce Martin David B. Burr Neil A. Sharkey & David P. Fyhrie
epub |eng | | Author:R. Bruce Martin, David B. Burr, Neil A. Sharkey & David P. Fyhrie

5.3.3 Types of Lubrication There are several different mechanisms by which lubrication can be achieved. Each of the following mechanisms is thought to play a role in the lubrication of ...
( Category: Molecular Biology March 22,2020 )
Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead by Martin Stevens
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Martin Stevens [Stevens, Martin]

Fig. 42. The colourful wings and eyespots of the peacock butterfly (Aglais io). Experiments have shown that their startle displays and eyespots are very effective in deterring avian attacks. Image ...
( Category: Botany March 22,2020 )
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by dave foreman
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:dave foreman

Massive, powerful, like some creation of Darth Vader, Glen Canyon Dam squats in the canyon of the Colorado River on the Arizona-Utah border and backs the cold, dead waters of ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 22,2020 )
Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design by Michael H. Herzog & Gregory Francis & Aaron Clarke
epub |eng | | Author:Michael H. Herzog & Gregory Francis & Aaron Clarke

Just as in the t-test, a criterion is chosen for statistical significance to set the Type I error rate to a desired rate (e.g., α = 0.05). When F exceeds ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 22,2020 )
Eye, Brain, and Vision by David H. Hubel
epub |eng | 1988-02-15 | Author:David H. Hubel [Hubel, David H.]

In the two figures on the previous page, a typical experiment is illustrated for part of a close-to-horizontal penetration through area 17, in which 23 cells were recorded. The eyes ...
( Category: Neurology March 21,2020 )
Mercury and the Everglades. A Synthesis and Model for Complex Ecosystem Restoration by Darren G. Rumbold & Curtis D. Pollman & Donald M. Axelrad
epub |eng | | Author:Darren G. Rumbold & Curtis D. Pollman & Donald M. Axelrad

Ogden JC (2005) Everglades ridge and slough conceptual ecological model. Wetlands 25:810–831 Osborne TZ, Newman S, Reddy KR (2008) Spatial distribution of total sulfur in the soils of the northern ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 21,2020 )
Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling by Newsom Jason T
epub |eng | | Author:Newsom, Jason T. [Jason T. Newsom]

Unequally Spaced Observations Another deviation from the simple, ideal time metric is when observations are not equally spaced. In practice, this is likely to be true in many data sets, ...
( Category: Statistics March 21,2020 )
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing by Gregory Richard L
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Gregory, Richard L.

Physiological changes Recent experiments have been aimed at whether physiological ‘feature detectors’ (Figure 4.7) are simply given innately, or whether early experience affects them. Kittens have been reared in environments ...
( Category: Neurology March 21,2020 )
Native American Architecture by Peter Nabokov & Robert Easton
epub |eng | 1988-11-30 | Author:Peter Nabokov & Robert Easton [Nabokov, Peter]

Upon completion of the building a participating Kwakiutl headman announced to his host: “The great house is finished for all the different tribes. My tribe has treated you as a ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 21,2020 )
The Science of Mom by Alice Green Callahan
epub |eng | 2015-03-20 | Author:Alice Green Callahan

UNDERSTANDING VACCINE RISKS Although the benefits of vaccines are tremendous, they do carry some risk. But then again, nothing we do is 100% safe. Every time we feed our children, ...
( Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth March 21,2020 )
Food Emulsifiers and Their Applications by Gerard L. Hasenhuettl & Richard W. Hartel
epub |eng | | Author:Gerard L. Hasenhuettl & Richard W. Hartel

Kato N, Shibasaki I (1975) Comparison of antimicrobial activities of fatty acids and their esters. J Ferment Technol 53:793–801 Kieseker FG (1983) Recombined dairy products. CSIRO Food Res Quarterly 43:25–37 ...
( Category: Microbiology March 21,2020 )
Mathematica for Bioinformatics by George Mias
epub |eng | | Author:George Mias

As you can see the DNA is arranged in a helix, with a sugar-phosphate outer backbone and pairs of nucleotides in the inner region. These nucleotides are called adenine (A), ...
( Category: Molecular Biology March 21,2020 )

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