
metabolism - Why are 6 turns of the Calvin cycle needed to make one ...
2021年10月6日 · I‘ve read that 6 turns of the Calvin cycle are required to make 1 glucose molecule. But, 3CO 2 and 3RuBP are used in one cycle and 6 triose phosphate is produced. Only 5 triose …
terminology - Why do so many species from the Global Diversity ...
2026年1月5日 · I'm comparing taxonomic databases to better understand species names. I've analyzed the list of species from the Catalogue of Life (COL), from Wikidata and from the Global Biodiversity …
What exactly is a "gland"? - Biology Stack Exchange
2026年2月24日 · Can someone please explain in simple ters the core, intuitive meaning of what is meant by the term " gland"? I have been learning a lot about the endocrine and exocrine …
How do birds concentrate their urine? - Biology Stack Exchange
2023年12月7日 · I don't know, but perhaps a better question is, "How do birds conserve water?" Their excrement is paste-like because it is both urine and fecal matter, and if you've ever owned fowl, you'll …
How old is this Kodiak bear? - Biology Stack Exchange
2025年9月3日 · Apologies if this is off-topic, I couldn't think of a more relevant SE site to post this. Wikipedia has the following picture of a captive Kodiak bear in (presumably) a zoo in Germany. How …
What does genetically tractable strain mean? - Biology Stack Exchange
2021年2月21日 · You've already basically got the idea of "genetically tractable": if we can readily modify an organism's genome using known techniques, then it's genetically tractable. That's a moving …
Why deoxyribose for DNA and ribose for RNA? - Biology Stack Exchange
2014年12月12日 · Why is DNA made out of deoxyribose and RNA made of ribose? Why can't they both use ribose or deoxyribose? I think that the deoxyribose gives an advantage in storing genes, the job …
For how many generations does the average human have descendants?
2024年8月20日 · From what pop science tends to tell us, it seems that the distribution of descendants humans have is very uneven. Mitochondrial Eve is the ancestor of all women in our present, …
Can a dNTP be built into a RNA strand? - Biology Stack Exchange
2013年7月2日 · All DNA polymerases use an RNA primer during DNA replication - they cannot begin a DNA molecule de novo. Before the primer is removed the newly synthesised strand is an RNA-DNA …
What is the status of the telomeres in HeLa cells?
2022年8月29日 · What is unclear to me is why HeLa cells are that particular? My understanding is that the permanent based on (supposedly) the telomerase mechanism exists in all cancer cells, as well …