First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen - but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the ...

Brainwave recordings revealed that successful remembering involved reduced alpha and beta activity alongside the reactivation ...

Plants and trees may seem pretty passive, but behind the scenes, their cells are working hard to put on a magic show. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how the processes of ...

Latest findings regarding nitric oxide have the potential to reshape fundamentally the way we think about the respiratory system -- and offer new avenues to save lives. Scientific dogma has the ...

A mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. which lacks leaf starch was isolated by screening for plants which did not stain with iodine. The starchless phenotype, confirmed by quantitative enzymic ...

The overall process of fermentation in animal cell and plant and yeast cells are shown in the diagram below. 15 times more energy is released per molecule of glucose when oxygen is present and aerobic ...

Respiration is a series of reactions, but this summarises the overall process. Human muscle can respire anaerobically for short periods of time - even though the process is relatively inefficient, ...