epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Doan, Thao & Melvold, Roger & Viselli, Susan & Waltenbaugh, Carl [Doan, Thao]

Figure 14.2 Asthma. Asthma is a reversible airway obstruction often caused by the release of inflammatory mediators from mast cells upon encounter with allergen. These inflammatory mediators cause the loosening ...

mobi |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Wade, Nicholas [Wade, Nicholas]

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Andreas Wagner

These examples and hundreds more illustrate the power of regulation to innovate. The lab notebooks of thousands of researchers and the pages of dozens of scholarly journals are overflowing with ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:G. Bradley Schaefer

Figure 9-7. A pedigree to evaluate as a sample problem (see text). Now knowing the manner of transmission, we can begin to assign genotypes to some individuals. For example, the ...

mobi |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Francisco Ayala

THE UNIVERSAL TREE OF LIFE, RECONSTRUCTED WITH RRNA (RIBOSOMAL NUCLEIC ACID) GENES. THE THREE MAJOR GROUPS OF ORGANISMS - BACTERIA, ARCHAEA, AND EUCARYOTA - THAT HAVE ALL EVOLVED FROM A ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Richard Lynn [Lynn, Richard]

Page 184 the District of Columbia fund free abortions for poor women on welfare, but others have to pay appreciable sums, and in the remainder of the states everyone has ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-08-20 | Author:Peter Pringle

7 ANATOMY OF A POISONED BUTTERFLY It’s not an exaggeration to say more monarchs succumb to high-velocity collisions with car windshields than ever encounter corn pollen. —VAL GIDDINGS, BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Tim Spector [SPECTOR, TIM]

Willpower and marshmallows Jenny and Florence looked very similar but were always fighting. Until we first tested them at the age of 40 they had no idea they were identical ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Fairbanks, Daniel J. [Fairbanks, Daniel J.]

It is nothing short of spectacular that scientists have found so much evidence of evolution in so many diverse places—in fossils entombed in sequential layers of sedimentary rocks, in molecules ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Katie McKissick [McKissick, Katie]

To understand how this one piddly gene affects something as complex as vision, we have to go into your eyeballs. But before that, let me take my contacts out. Okay, ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Tara Rodden Robinson

X-linked dominant traits Like autosomal dominant disorders, X-linked dominant traits don’t skip generations. Every person who inherits the allele expresses the disorder. The family tree in Figure 12-5 shows many ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Moyra Smith

Molecular-based treatment design in Alzheimer’s disease Neprilysin is an endopeptidase that is expressed in a number of different tissues, including the brain. Studies on mouse tissues revealed that tissue-specific transcripts ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Richard Dawkins

mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

figments of realit y pincer-like claws and is carnivorous; it regards anything less than half its size, which moves, as food, which it attacks, snipping or tearing off any appendages. ...