Archive for July 2018
Your body has many different kinds of cells. Though they might look different under a microscope, most cells have chemical and structural features in common. In humans, there are about 200 different...
Dark chocolate is loaded with nutrients that can positively affect your health.Made from the seed of the cocoa tree, it is one of the best sources of antioxidants on the planet.Studies show that dark...
Apples are among the most popular types of fruit in the world.They are the fruit of the apple tree (Malus domestica), originally from Central Asia, and are grown all over the world.Apples are high...
Lysosomes: They contain membrane-bound sacs with powerful digestive enzymes
(enzymes are made by RER) to digest the worn-out cell organelles. When the cell
gets damaged, lysosomes may burst and the...
After meal, you are always advisable to have a gap for atleast 15–20 minutes even before drinking water. The logic is, when you start eating your food, digestive juice starts to secrete for digestion...
Really depends on what kind of acid. Beverages like coke or fruit juices both contain acids. For coke, it's carbonic acid, and for citrus fruits, it's citric acid (and about a million others (exaggeration)).If...
A new study suggests that eating chocolate can help you stay thin. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego found that people who frequently eat chocolate have lower body-mass indexes...
There is no reason to consider sour curd bad, it is just the matter of taste, sour curd and far more active bacteria than the sweet.
When bacteria grows and multiplies exponentially, it convert lactose...
While the invention of the telescope made the Cosmos accessible to human observation, the microsope opened up smaller worlds, showing what living forms were composed of. The cell was first discovered...
Eukaryotic cells are cells that contain a nucleus and organelles, and are enclosed by a plasma membrane. Organisms that have eukaryotic cells include protozoa, fungi, plants and animals. These organisms...
Prokaryotic cells are cells that do not have a true nucleus or most other cell organelles. Organisms that have prokaryotic cells are unicellular and called prokaryotes. Bacteria and archaea are prokaryotes....
Sweating is an important process to cool down the body when we get too hot. It produced by sweat glands on the surface of the skin.
As the sweat evaporates,the body cools down.Our body maintains a...
The reaction in which more reactive element displaces less reactive element known as displacement reaction.For example:-CuSO4 +Fe ----------> FeSO4 +CuIn above reaction the Fe (Iron) is more reactive...
Microbes are tiny forms of life that surround us – too small to be seen by the naked eye. They are found in water, in the soil, and in the air. The human body is also home to millions of these...
First of all what are vaccines? Vaccines are substances used to produce immunity to diseases in the living body. Immunity is the ability of the body to resist a diseases by natural or artificial means.Smallpox...
First of all what are antibiotics? Antibiotics (anti=against,bios=life) are chemical substances produced by microorganisms such as fungi and bacteria which kills or stops the growth of disease causing...
There was no science before 1572, the year that Tycho Brahe saw a new star in the night sky above him. To be sure, the Greeks had made efforts to present their knowledge of nature in a systematic fashion,...
Viruses are the smallest of all the microorganisms. They are not cell and do not contains cell organelles. They cannot grow and multiply on their own . For this they need a living host (being). They...
Salt in the ocean comes from rocks on land.The rain that falls on the land contains some dissolved carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. This causes the rainwater to be slightly acidic due to carbonic...
While a sip of beer probably wouldn't kill it plants can tolerate some alcohol because they sometime produce it themselves . In conditions where there isn't enough oxygen,such as waterlogged soil, plants...
An acid called capsaicin ,found in the skin on the inside of chilli pods,cause the burning sensation . Many people think that chilli seeds are also hot , but they contain no capsaicin. However the chemical...
Microorganisms (micro=small and organisms =living) Tiny organisms which are not visible with unaided eyes. Microoganisms are every where surround you there will be millons of microorganisms present which...
Microorganisms are been used from years to years back in perpartion of food items such as : curd, bread and cheese.For example : In making of curd (bactria) You have seen your mother making curd for...
What is friction?
The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.a lubrication system which reduces friction’ It's or...
