I know that intestinal flora metabolising oligosaccharides, like those found in legumes, is the caus…
I was reading page 92 of Fundamentals of Microbiology, 4th edition, which states In facilitated …
5,5'-dibromo-4,4'-dichloro-indigo is the product of X-gal cleavage, often used as a reporter with B-…
If you would like more specifics seeing how I realise that this question is very broad and may be di…
When food is scarce, the body slows its metabolism. Are there any other systems or processes that en…
I'd like to know how antioxidants affects the human metabolism and which ones are essential for meta…
After death which of our body's metabolic processes will continue functioning for the longest?
I am currently taking a biology class. I do not understand this concept. I understand that the elect…
(Exogenous) melatonin is administered at night for treatment of circadian rhythm disorders, but mela…
Pathway of AMPK protein in the intestine
In my attempt to create a metabolic model of E. coli, I have found a comprehensive list of metabolic…
As far as I can tell, caffeine metabolism occurs primarily via the CYP1A2 enzyme. I am curious as to…
Our body does not produce two polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA): linoleic acid and alfa-linolenic a…
If you had an isolate bacteria sample how would you determine if they were nitrogen fixing?
Food goes in, excrements come out. This seems obvious. But it seems like the mass of the excrements …
When a person's glucose and glycogen stores are depleted, which can occur due to fasting or due to a…
In a book about post-war Japan (Embracing Defeat, Dower) the author mentions a process for making sa…
I've been looking around and cannot find a definite answer on what it is that tells trees to change …
Where does an organism store reserves of the amino acids it needs to build various proteins it needs…
I've been reading about homeostatic nature of a lot of neurobiological processes - the brain is tryi…
I've heard that the brain consumes quite a lot of oxygen and energy, compared to the rest of the bod…
I'm interested in learning if there's some way of quantifying the organism's metabolic efficiency as…
ATP Synthase is ubiquitous throughout life on earth and so most probably evolved within the last uni…
Quite simply, some organisms metabolize glucose under anaerobic conditions via Glucose->(2) Pyruvic …
Well, most of us have experienced the wonderful feeling of the dreaded hangover. How does it work ex…
Do marine animals exhibit deep hibernation/aestivation as land-based creatures do? If not, Why?
The existence of repressors, as pre-existing chemicals tailored to both products (inducers) and thei…
Let's assume for a minute that microbes themselves and their direct toxic products (i.e. endotoxins)…
The electron transport chains of both the light reactions of photosynthesis (in plants) and oxidativ…
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence ("beer after wine and you'll feel fine, wine after beer will m…
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