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  1. Stealth Mosquitoes? - Biology Stack Exchange

    Aug 26, 2024 · Have mosquitoes become silent and invisible, or am I losing my senses of hearing and sight? This summer I have seen no mosquitoes and have only heard two of them, very quiet, as I sat …

  2. metabolism - Why are 6 turns of the Calvin cycle needed to make one ...

    Oct 6, 2021 · I‘ve read that 6 turns of the Calvin cycle are required to make 1 glucose molecule. But, 3CO 2 and 3RuBP are used in one cycle and 6 triose phosphate is produced. Only 5 triose …

  3. Phosphorylation of glucose in glycolysis - Biology Stack Exchange

    Jul 26, 2025 · In the first step of glycolysis, the glucose ring is phosphorylated. Phosphorylation is the process of adding a phosphate group to a molecule derived from ATP. As a result, at this point in …

  4. Why are so few foods blue? - Biology Stack Exchange

    Feb 22, 2017 · Although blue foods exist, they're rare enough compared to other foods for food preparers to use blue plasters as a convention. The natural colour of a given food is due to pigments …

  5. Quantifying Gene Expression - Biology Stack Exchange

    Sep 23, 2020 · I have found that many studies use the mRNA concentration as a “proxy” for protein activity because there should be correlation between mRNA levels and proteins expression levels. …

  6. Problems understanding membrane potential - Biology Stack Exchange

    Apr 13, 2017 · I understand that membrane potential is the difference of the extracellular and intracellular ionic charges, due to their concentrations. We say that the extracellular space has a …

  7. Is there a measure of human genetic variation, where human genetic ...

    Dec 30, 2019 · The question makes it clear that the poster is aware of the different ways of estimating human genetic variation, and he is also no doubt aware of the fact that Wikipedia is written by …

  8. How do membrane proteins find their target locations?

    Nov 25, 2017 · The question might be asked for any kind of "bound" proteins, but I'd like to restrict it to membrane proteins. Assuming membrane proteins (or their main parts) don't (or aren't) build in situ …

  9. dna - qPCR precipitation - Biology Stack Exchange

    Nov 8, 2023 · I have performed DNA precipitation using two methods on an amplified 194 bp PCR product: using a PEG method with just cold 80% ethanol PEG worked much better for me. Can the …

  10. Do spiders learn how to build webs? - Biology Stack Exchange

    Nov 4, 2021 · Spiders’ ability to weave webs is a classic example of an innate or instinctual behavior. They do not learn to make webs. The earliest English-language scientific publication that I can find to …