Biology Essays

Peter Bennett and Stephen Barrie’s 7-Day Detox Miracle: Restore Your Mind and Body’s Natural Vitality with This Safe and Effective Life-Enhancing Program, is an excellent read on not only purely biochemical information that is the basis for a self-help program but also contains a list of scientific references organized by …

Psychology’s conceptualization of anorexia nervosa illustrates how the discipline deals with the body. On the one hand, there is an emphasis on the body as a physiological apparatus. On the other hand, specific approaches such as social constructionism stress the non-physiological body as something to which certain discursive meanings get …

Bellomo’s “The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, and the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political, and Religious Debate of Our Time,” is a fresh and quite comprehensive survey of the contemporary state of both stem cell research, proper, and the political, religious, and ethical debates which surround the …

For the human body to go about its daily routine, it needs energy. We need energy to run, to play, to read, to study, to watch TV, even in sleeping we burn off energy. This energy comes from the various foodstuffs which we eat, as well as from the air …

Bacterial meningitis is a severe infectious disease of the central nervous system, an inflammation of the meninges, which is caused by the bacterial infection. Neisseria meningitides and Streptococcus pneumoniae are the pathogens in response for the most cases of this disease, though meningitis in patients older than 50 years may …

Carolus Linnaeus Carolus Linnaeus or Carl Von Linn established a system of taxonomy in the 18th century that still gets active use today. Linnaean taxonomy’s most important aspect is the use of binomial nomenclature, a formal method of naming species. In binomial nomenclature, each species is given a two word …

P2X receptors are membrane ion channels that open in response to the binding of extracellular ATP. Seven genes in vertebrates encode P2X receptor subunits, which are 40-50% identical in amino acid sequence. Each subunit has two transmembrane domains, separated by an extracellular domain (approximately 280 amino acids) (North, 2002). These …

            An organizational model which was also referred to as the scientific model of management gave rise to what is now known as the formal organization. Defined by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911 as “the application of scientific principles to the operation of a business or other large organization,” this …

I tend to agree that anything human intelligence can achieve must eventually also be achievable by digital computers since it is possible to design computers that follow rules when processing information and hence there is some unitary sense in which the brain and the computer function similarly. Human being follows …

Without the invention of the microscope, the cell theory would not have been possible In my opinion, the establishment of cell theory as the predominant scientific theory regarding the organization of life hinged heavily on the invention of the microscope. While it is not entirely impossible for cell theory to …