Category: Uncategorized

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE considers the subject of topographic scale in nature. Judging from the complete paucity of literature on the subject, biologists appear rather oblivious of the issue of scale, and this partly explains why the vast majority of biological investigations are earth-centric and pre-Copernican. Thinking biologically beyond our atmosphere is rare. We seem to be the gumboots and magnifying glass type of scientists rather than big thinkers. View in LinkedIn

MEIOSIS MAKES GERM CELLS. "Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females." https://lnkd.in/eF42xiU View in LinkedIn

"MEIOSIS is an ancestral, highly conserved process in eukaryotic life cycles, and for all eukaryotes the shared component of sexual reproduction." https://lnkd.in/etsJH7u View in LinkedIn

IS IT TRUE that evolution has trended in more complex organisms toward sexual reproduction? For the reason of creating greater genetic variety? We take a journey into meiosis and sex in the evolution of creatures on this planet. Why did nature bother to invent sex? View in LinkedIn

A SMIDGE OF NOTHING. “Roughly 70% of the universe is made of dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest — everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter adds up to less than 5% of the universe.” https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/136762377389/7-facts-that-will-make-you-feel-very-small View in LinkedIn

TRIGGER UNRESOLVED. "In conclusion, although abiotic and oxidative stresses seems to play a role in the transition from somatic to reproductive fate and the regulation of (apo)meiosis, their potential role as a driving force promoting sexual or asexual reproduction remains unclear and warrants further investigation." https://lnkd.in/ewV3vWP View in LinkedIn

INFINITE UNIVERSES. “They call it the multiverse. It’s a cosmos in which there are multiple universes. And by multiple, I mean an infinite number. These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2017/may/17/multiverse-have-astronomers-found-evidence-of-parallel-universes View in LinkedIn

MUTANT OFFSPRING. "Over recent years, investigations into the regulatory processes governing meiosis have allowed the identification of meiotic mutants that generate unreduced gametes." http://dev.biologists.org/content/develop/142/2/229.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

THE MULTIVERSE. “The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse. There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse.” https://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html View in LinkedIn

SINGLE INITIATION. "In higher plants, it has been hypothesized that the megaspore mother cell represses the formation of additional megaspore mother cells and thus restricts germline formation to only one cell per ovule." http://dev.biologists.org/content/develop/142/2/229.full.pdf View in LinkedIn