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Put the distance travelled along the y axis, and the different pigments that seperated along the x axis.

The origin of plasmids from bacterial genomes is a little easier to accept, and perhaps viruses picked up from other bacteria or luckily evolved some protein coding ability from there. Just a sleepy guess.

Well, wouldn't pregnant women be dropping like flies with such a lowered immunity?

Interesting idea, I haven't seen anything about it before. I took a look on google but I couldn't find anything worthwhile. Because they don't have nervous systems electricity won't have the same dramatic effect as with animals. The most impressive scenario will be lightning strikes. With a smaller current flowing through a plant you might get some effects due to chemicals being attracted to the negative or positive poles. Plant growth and development is controlled by the amounts of different hormones present in the cells. If electricity had an effect on the migration of these hormones you might get some changes in the rate of growth.

Mmm floor pie.

Happy birthday That still leaves 11-odd solid drinking hours. (BTW your timetable sucks)

Well today they shed their brown skin and are bigger and prettier. They have orange legs and kinda blue-black bodies. Unfortunately I think they may be stink bugs. I have lots of geckos in my house, and they all have a territory they hunt in at night. I heard them fighting behind some blinds and looked behind. They both froze, one hanging upside down from the window sill and the other hanging from it's mouth

'Tool of the devil' is just disturbing now :S

Vitamin B12 deficiencies can contribute to developing dementia in elderly people.

I wasn't suggesting there's no link between the two, but that the thing need to control is consumption, and while population control is one necessary step, it's not the only one.

We don't have a population problem, we have a consumption problem.

Not necessarily. Most philosophies of science don't rely on having a defined reality. Instead, science is essentially a methodology for describing observations, the sum of which is the observable universe. The descriptions are considered valid if they are able to make verifiable predictions of the observable universe.

I found a cone shaped seashell on the beach that had been eroded away so three of the sprirals were cut in half. It looked cool so I took it home, and then I thought of Fibonacci numbers. So I measured the three spirals at their widest points, getting 10 mm, 17 mm and 27 mm. The first two add up to give the last one, and the ratio between the first two is 1.700, between the second two is 1.588. These are pretty close to the golden mean of about 1.618, especially since I was using a dodgy plastic ruler. Ok so it's not ground breaking mathematical work, but it's probably the closest I'll ever get.

Carbohydrates have the emprical formula Cx(H2O)y. The are polyhydroxy ketones and aldehydes. Carbohydrate monomers (monosaccharides) polymerise by codensation to form polysaccharides. Polysaccharides can be broken down into monosaccharides by hydrolysis. Enzymes are catalytic proteins (or RNA), so they increase the rate of a reaction, and/or bring substrates together to be catalysed. The substrate is the molecule/s they act on. Digestion is way too complicated Enzyme action is affected by temp and pH, as well as the concentration of them and the substrate.

Defining reality is impossible using logic, as logic is based on drawing inferences from assumptions which are agreed to be true. To define what is true you need to know what is real, and round and round it goes.

The species in the order Hemiptera are often called true bugs. They include bed bugs, water striders and stink bugs. They have leathery forewings, rather than hard ones like beetles. That's what I assume these little guys are, and as most rely on the flow of sap to suck on, it might be hard to feed them.

I think the best way for physicians to learn to communicate is to get into hospitals and start doing it with real patients.

K the orange ones are just new born bugs, they go brown after a while. You can stop looking to the bugs now.

Found some eggs on my curtains a week or so ago and so I put them in a jar, and today I noticed they hatched. 13 little creepy brown bugs in there now, all waving their antennae as a sign of impending doom to those who oppose them. Except for one who just wrestles with an egg shell, I don't understand him. Hey I just went and checked them and there's now two who are kind of orange and green, weird. I'm pretty sure I saw the mother because it looked just like the browns (except bigger..), and was on the curtains on the night I found them. The roange ones were apart from the brown ones but now one has ventured over to them. They seem to get on fine, such nice harmonious critters Look to the bugs people, look to the bugs...

Friend of mine consumed 20-odd paracetemol tables when he was a teenager, had to get his stomach pumped. Another time another only had herbal painkillers, they didn't have nearly the same effect. Science in action!

Is the definition the reality you shall assume for whatever else you are doing in the project, or a general philosophical argument? It's ok, but the person doing the observing could just be dreaming.

At my last uni (I moved this year) there was a post doc who had just found her 500th species. Pretty amazing as she only studied some type of marine worm. We've only classified a small percentage of the species, but many of the remaining are in remote areas.

Oldest and UGLIEST.

If someone doesn't believe that paracetemol has any physical effect on them, then they could prove it by consuming a packet.

I remember reading as a kid those native to the north west of the US used bone tweezers to pluck out their facial hair. Ouch.