contributed by Michael Eisen
Do you consider mitochondrial DNA to be part of a eukaryote's genome?
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Talmudic Question #193
Talmudic Question #192
contributed by Pok Man Leung
The natural habitats of chemolithotrophs such as Leptospirillum and Pyrolobus contain organic compounds. Yet, when grown in the lab, these microbes...
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Talmudic Question #191
contributed by Micheal Malamy
As a model organism, E. coli played (and continues to play) a key role in molecular biology. Yet, its role in the gut does not appear to be so critical.
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Talmudic Question #190
Which cause more severe diseases in humans, RNA or DNA viruses?
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Talmudic Question #189
Can you imagine an active mode of motion that unicellular microbes are not capable of, but multicellular eukaryotes are?
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Talmudic Question #188
Best we know, which contains the largest number of species: the Bacteria, the Fungi, or the Protists?
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Talmudic Question #187
by Raymond Cox:
Why does Brevibacterium grow so slowly?
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Talmudic Question #186
In their classical experiments, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty showed that streptococci in a specific growth phase take up exogenous DNA, resulting in a transformation of their phenotype...
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Talmudic Question #185
Can you conceive of a virus that can divide by binary fission?
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Talmudic Question #184
What will be found in the samples collected by Perseverance once they are brought to Earth and fully analyzed?
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