Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / September 2005

i'm a grade 12 student in canada...and i want to pursue medicine aftr
my 12th....i found out tht the way for this is doing any 4 yr, premed
prog. and aftr that u enter into proper medicine.....the premed prog.
,most commonly is the life science.

does it mean the counterpart genes of one pair of chromosomes?
Thanks

I just joined the group and am very interested in this topic. I am a
new
Bioinformatics student and need some extra help with my classes. Do any
of

Can anyone tell me where to find information on protozoa cells.

(Remember back when the Democrats were chortling about James Watt's statement
about trees giving off greenhouse gases? )
Heatwave makes plants warm planet
By Richard Black

I would like to ask if anyone knows of a good biomedicine MSc program
via distant learning.. please post links.
Thanks in Advance
FHM

I liked this one:
http://sciencenewsdaily.org/story-6663.html
Just as we talk about stem cells and parent DNA, can't we also speak of
root amino structures and sequences for the diversity of proteins?

0hii everyone! I am Bekir, am a molecular biology and genetic student
at a university from Turkey(Turkiye) . i am trying to study about
plants especially turbulent growing of plants because of
electromanyetic field! but i need help about plants and their growing.

Does anyone knows about the diffusion of Disaccharides through the
plasma membrane?

Not so long ago there was news about a prokaryote that could survive
biological sterelizing washing machines operating at 131 degrees
Celsius. I've searched everywhere, but I'm not able to find the news
article or paper.

Anyone working in that field (bioinformatics)?
Want to shed some light on the minimal preparation requirement and
least amount of time on how to get into that particular industry?

compared to alternative splicing, what is the difference between
alternative splicing and consititutive splicing. I searched the
internet but fail to find any definition about constitutive splicing,
anyone can help me out?

i'm a student of computer scince (Italy). I am interested
in the problem of protein folding. I have read a some research
paper on this subject, mainly on algorithms that fold a
sequence of aminoacid in the HP model.

I am thinking of switching career paths and was wondering if anyone has
any info on salaries for BS level jobs in biotech corps in the midwest
region?  All replies appreciated.

Does anyone have any advice on getting into the field of bioinformatics
with a somewhat limited education in biology? Are there any tutorials
on the web to orient me with all the tools and skills a
bioinformatician needs? Is there any way for me to volunteer my time to