List 3 ways in which a virus may be beneficial to either animals or plants. Write the specific term of bacteria that are given to intensively-farmed animals as part of their feed and make them mutate and become resistant to all antib...
The term ‘lecithin’ can have different meanings depending on the context, but for our purposes, it refers to a mixture of phospholipids and oil. Phospholipids are a component of the cell membrane in all plants and animals, but lecithin is most often derived from sunflower kernels, rapeseed ...
Is it true that that viruses are not bad in themselves, but cause genetic mutations that can be either bad (i.e., they cause illness) or good (evolution)? The presence of beneficial bacteria increases the likelihood that ne...
Other examples of transcriptomic approaches to the study of anthropic compounds include microarray-based studies of Tributyltin, a chemical biocide used in marine antifouling paints that, in addition to causing shell abnormalities, also affects biomineralization pathways in the oyster Pinctada maxima (...