Which of the following is stained using carmine?
Acetocarmine or Carmine is a bright red color dye. The dye is basic in nature. Carmine is produced from carminic acid that isolated from the […]
Month: February 2022
Who is known as the father of paleontology?
Paleontology is the scientific study of fossils and the expert is known as the paleontologist. The founding father of the field of paleontology is French […]
The term phylum was given by
Phylum is the second-highest taxonomic rank in the classification of organisms. The rank phylum is present below the kingdom and above the class. The term […]
A pair of insectivorous plants is:
The insectivorous plants are Nepenthes and bladderwort. Nepenthes (Nepenthes mirabilis) also known as tropical pitcher plants is a carnivorous plant belonging to the family Nepenthaceae […]
Dolphins are only able to taste
Dolphins are aquatic mammals belonging to the infraorder Cetacea. The five primary tastes are sweet, salty, bitter, savory (umami), and sour. These tastes are detected by the tastes receptors […]
The scientific name of the wild pig is
The scientific name of the wild pig is Sus scrofa. Wild pig is also known as wild boar or wild swine. The animal is belonging […]
Diabetes is due to:
Diabetes or diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that arises due to a high level of sugar in the blood for a long time. Diabetes […]
The first codon discovered by Nirenberg and Matthaei was :
The Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment was performed by American biologist Marshall W. Nirenberg (1927-2010) and German biologist J. Heinrich Matthaei in 1961. Matthaeiat was a postdoc fellow in […]
The genome of E coli contains 4 million base pairs or 4×10^6 bp. The number of turns of DNA present is
The genome of E coli contains 4 million base pairs or 4×106 bp. The number of turns of DNA present is 400,000 turns or (4×105) […]
The number of cornea in the eye of butterfly is
Butterflies are insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera and phylum Arthropoda. One of the morphological features of all the insects is the presence of compound eyes. Each compound eye […]