The Human Genome Project was a project undertaken in 1990 by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health. This project was expected to take fifteen years to complete, but because of rapid advances in technology, was…
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Fatty acids are unbranched hydrocarbons (carbon chains with hydrogens attached) with an organic carboxylic acid group at the end. The carbon chains in some hydrocarbons can be branched, but naturally occurring fatty acids are not branched. The carboxylic acid group…
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With the advent of new molecular biology techniques, including bioinformatics, scientists have new ways to determine relatedness between organisms. Even if two organisms have no readily apparent comparable features at the macro level, scientists can analyze DNA sequences and protein…
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January 11, 2015 Earth Science
Water, without it, we die and without a clean drinking water supply, we are likely to become sick. Therefore, the water processing plants around the world play an important part in people’s lives. A water processing plant abstracts water either…
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January 11, 2015 Earth Science
Global Warming is real. But the way we have chosen to fight it is ineffective. Even if we could stop all production of greenhouse gases (and that’s not going to happen), the concentration of these pernicious gases that we have…
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We are of the species “Homo Sapiens”. Our genome refers to all of the genes that our species possesses. The genome can be likened to a “blueprint” of our physical structure. The genome contains all of the genes, or the…
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January 11, 2015 Earth Science
Brackish water is salty water that has less salinity than sea water. It is generally a mixture of freshwater and seawater that is usually found where rivers or large lakes flow into the ocean. The technical standard is between 3…
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There is only a 1.6% difference in your DNA and that of a Chimpanzee. Human ethnicities have traditionally been defined by their phenotypes, or physical appearance. Though there are thousands of possible phenotypes for skin color, hair, skeletal structure, and…
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January 11, 2015 Earth Science
A severe drought causes starvation in Africa. Flash floods kill thousands in the Caribbean. The hottest temperatures in years are witnessed in California. Thousands of marine species die off the coast of South America. These aren’t scenarios out of a…
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Mitochondria are the cellular organelles that manufacture most of the energy that our cells need to function. Cellular respiration, series of reactions that take place within the mitochondria, complete the process of turning food energy into ATP energy that can…
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