Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / December 2005

 If beneficial mutations are a basis of evolution, what proportion of
them are beneficial? There is overwhelming agreement on this point
among evolutionists. For example,
Carl Sagan declares: "Most of them are harmful or lethal."

Hi there...
i'm an undergrad student working on a small project during my vacation.
As part of it, I had the situation where I had to do a PAGE of a sample
which also contains tritiated thymidine, and then do an autoradiograph

   "Mutations . . . are the basis of evolution," states The World
Book Encyclopedia Similarly, paleontologist Steven Stanley called
mutations "the raw materials" for evolution. And geneticist Peo Koller
declared that mutations "are necessary for evolutionary progress."

Creationism museum on track to open in '07
By Luke E. Saladin
Post staff reporter
As donations continue to come in, supporters of a creationism museum in Northern

Has anyone experienced what happens with 4 female kittens and 1 male,
brother and sisters as they grow older. They all live under a building
and I feed them daily. There are neighboring tomcats that infrequently
come around.

    I am meera doing my 3rd yr biotech. There is 1 elective for me in
this sem, I have to select between  biological spectroscopy or food
science.please tellme the scope for both& suggest me which one to
choose.

Hi,i'm final year student and i have problem in my final year project. I
have run SDS-PAGE to study the protein profile of isolated phage from
chicken intestine.But after stanined and destained the gel, there are no
band appear.I can't get the band for the broad range protein marker ...

I was asked to critique this PBS TV show. I saw the first program of it
but have not seen the remaining episodes. I think PBS is losing its
standards of "good science" by airing this program which I would call
"pop science" or "tabloid science" because it contains more errors than

I am curious to know what exactly is that a person can do that will
benefit diverse social groups in our society with the skills attained
from a graduate study, say Master's in Bioinfomatics?
I can think of indirect effects as I work in the field but how do  I

human genome contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341
gaps.
where are these intereption if we think that our chromosome are 23 it
means only 22 gaps are their where are 341 gaps

I am student of MSc medical biotechnology and want to work on the stem
cell.
I need a new topic in this project.
thanks a lot.

Hi list,
I'm trying to experiment with performing local alignments upon DNA or
protein sequences. I've never done this before. Installing blast wasn't
hard but figuring out how to use it is.

Dear All
I had seen a very good site for career enhancement courses www.bii.in
Provideing courses in various upcoming areas like Biomedical,
Bioinformatics, Pharmacoinformatics, Agriculture and Intellectual

Info sobre ecologia de embalses/Info about pool ecology
Hola. Necesito información sobre la ecología de embalses y funcionamiento:
termoclina, niveles troficos,  eje vertical y eje horizontal, así como
impacto ambiental

I want to install or test BLAST on my Linux computer.
I want to do this, because I've developed an algorithm which does
somehting similar to BLAST, but more accurate. It's a "spin-off"
algorithm that I developed, although it's something of a spin off of