I've heard a statement in a talk that U-rich sequences cause transcriptional pausing. The intuitive explanation for this was that the UTP concentration is lower in the cell than the ATP concentrati…

I found a question about ants sleeping - Do ants or other insects sleep, and if so why?, but I don't think it really answers my question. For the question, I'm mostly referring to web-making spide…

I have heard that the Human Botfly transfers its eggs through other invertebrates, and it strikes my curiosity that if an insect could simply land on its host directly to deposit its eggs, then why…

Something I have wondered for a while is why have two different primary defense mediums, ie earwax and mucus, that perform the same function? As far as I know, mucus and earwax are both part of the

Let's say that some piece of DNA would be subject to extreme negative selection if it were independently inherited, but it is very closely linked to an extraordinarily fit gene, and so the complex it

When I looked for the largest protozoan I've found the name Syringammina fragilissima. According to wikipedia "… Syringammina fragilissima, is among the largest known coenocytes, reaching up to 20