Science Terms

What is Ex situ conservation ? Explained

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Ex situ con­ser­va­tion is com­prised of the old­est and best known con­ser­va­tion method known to human, it also involves new­er, some­times con­tro­ver­sial lab­o­ra­to­ry meth­ods. Ex situ con­ser­va­tion has cer­tain lim­i­ta­tions for con­ser­va­tion of ani­mals. These include adap­ta­tion prob­lems, loss of genet­ic vari­abil­i­ty due to inbreed­ing and con­cen­tra­tion in small place, sur­plus ani­mal and con­ti­nu­ity in … Read more

What is Trisomy 13 — Patau syndrome ?

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Tri­somy 13 is also known as patau syn­drome. it is a genet­ic con­di­tion aris­ing due to pres­ence of an extra copy of chro­mo­some 13. The man­i­fes­ta­tion of this con­di­tion include Car­diac anom­alies Defect in ner­vous sys­tem Hypo­to­nia or weak­er Mus­cle Tone Defor­mi­ties in phys­i­cal fea­ture and Intel­lec­tu­al abil­i­ties. The sur­vival rate of such affect­ed indi­vid­ual … Read more

What is Glycolsis ? Definition, Important Points

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Glycolsis

Gly­col­y­sis is a sequence of reac­tion which con­verts glu­cose and relat­ed hex­ose into two mol­e­cule of pyru­vate with net pro­duc­tion of 2 ATP molecules.It is the most impor­tant path­way in ener­gy metab­o­lism present in both aer­o­bic and anaer­o­bic organisms.The cycle is com­plet­ed in 10 steps with the help of enzymes present in the cytoplasm.None of … Read more

The Fundamental Unit of Life : All you need to know

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Fundamental Unit of Life

Cell It is the struc­tur­al and func­tion­al unit of life. → Cell is termed as the struc­tur­al unit of life as it pro­vides struc­ture to our body. → Cell is con­sid­ered as the func­tion­al unit of life as all the func­tions of the body take place at cell lev­el. Dis­cov­ery of cell: → Dis­cov­ered by Robert Hooke in 1665. → Robert Brown in 1831 dis­cov­ered … Read more

What is Soil ? Formation of Soil

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Soil is a nat­ur­al resource formed by wheather­ing (break­down) of rocks. It has been defined as they matrix (sand slit clay) con­tain­ing liv­ing bio­mass and dead organ­ic mat­ter with some con­cen­tra­tion of air and water.  It is a rich source of organ­ic and inor­gan­ic mate­r­i­al that sup­port plant life and micro­scop­ic com­mu­ni­ties. Inor­gan­ic mate­r­i­al include ele­ments … Read more

What is Ecology ? History of Ecology

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Ecol­o­gy is the study of the rela­tion­ship of organ­isms i.e . plants, ani­mals and microor­gan­ism with their sur­round­ing (envi­ron­ment). Hans Reit­er (1868) gave con­cept of ecol­o­gy. The term Ecol­o­gy is derived from words ‘oikos’ mean­ing home and ‘logos’ mean­ing study. The term was coined in1869 by Ger­man biol­o­gist Ernst haeck­el.  Accord­ing to him Ecol­o­gy is a … Read more

What is Vegetation ? Types with explanation

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Veg­e­ta­tion refers to the plant cov­er or the plant com­mu­ni­ty present on earth . it includes both man made veg­e­ta­tion and nat­ur­al veg­e­ta­tion . the form describes the total plant cov­er in an area or on the sur­face e of the earth as a whole . Teh flo­ra refers to plants of a par­tic­u­lar region present at … Read more

What is Kingdom Protista ?

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All sin­gled celled eukary­otes are placed under pro­tista, bit the bound­aries af this king­dom are not well defined what may be a pho­to­syn­thet­ic pro­tis­tan to on biol­o­gist May be a plant to anoth­er. In this we include chrys­o­phytes , Dinofla­gel­lates , Eug­le­noids, slime moulds and pro­to­zoa under pro­tista. Mem­ber of pro­tista are pri­mar­i­ly aquat­ic. This … Read more

What is Management ? Objectives and functions of management

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Man­age­ment is the process of plan­ning, organ­is­ing, staffing, direct­ing and con­trol­ling the resources of an enter­prise effi­cien­cy and effec­tive­ly for achiev­ing the goals of the orga­ni­za­tion. Man­age­ment helps in achiev­ing group goals, cre­ates a dynam­ic organ­i­sa­tion and increase effi­cien­cy. It also helps in achiev­ing per­son­al objec­tive and devel­op­ment of soci­ety.  Objec­tive of Man­age­ment Organ­si­a­tion , … Read more

What are the Benefits of viruses ?

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Vac­cine pro­duc­tion:- Vac­cines pro­vide immu­ni­ty against viral dis­eases . the con­ven­tion­al vac­cines syn­the­sised using live atten­u­at­ed viruses(weakened in force or effect ) or killed virus­es are aay to pro­duce and eco­nom­ic. Gene Ther­a­py:- we all know that a gene is a region of DNA that encodes a func­tion­al RNA or pro­tein prod­uct. A defec­tive gene … Read more

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