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Microbial Life - Educational Resources

Microbial Life - Educational Resources
Teaching and learning about the diversity, ecology and evolution of the microbial world; discover the connections between microbial life, the history of the earth and our dependence on micro-organisms. The expansive Sunset Lake of the Black Sand Basin is one of the largest thermal bodies of water in Yellowstone National Park. Details This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology. You will find information about microorganisms, extremophiles and extreme habitats, as well as links to online provides information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of micro-organisms for students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, and the general public. Microbial Life in Extreme Environments: Mammoth Terraces, Yellowstone National Park. Microbial Life in Marine Environments: Pancake ice in Ross Sea, Antarctica. Find out more about the myriad of microorganisms that live in marine environments. Microbial Observatories: Research Methods: Related:  BIOS

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Top 10 Most Dangerous Plants in the World 1. Most likely to eat a rat Giant Pitcher Plant: Nepenthes attenboroughii Discovered more than 5000 feet above sea level on Mount Victoria in the Philippines, the giant, carnivorous pitcher plant secretes a nectar-like substance to lure unsuspecting prey into a pool of enzymes and acid. A series of sticky, downward ribs makes it nearly impossible for trapped prey to escape. 2. Castor Bean Plant: Ricinus communis Castor-bean plants can be purchased at just about any garden center, despite containing the deadly poison ricin. 3. Western Water Hemlock: Cicuta douglasii Deemed the most "violently toxic plant that grows in North America" by the USDA, the water hemlock contains the toxin cicutoxin, which wreaks havoc on the central nervous system, causing grand mal seizures--which include loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions--and eventually death, if ingested. 4. White snakeroot: Eupatorium rugosum 5. Monkshood: Aconitum napellus 6. Common Bladderwort: Utricularia macrorhiza 7. 8.

Azadirachta indica (neem tree) Datasheet Azadirachta indica (neem tree) Don't need the entire report? Generate a print friendly version containing only the sections you need. Generate report Identity Top of page Preferred Scientific Name Azadirachta indica A. Preferred Common Name neem tree Other Scientific Names Antelaea canescens Cels ex Heynh.Antelaea javanica Gaertn.Azadirachta indica subsp. vartakii Kothari, Londhe & N.P.SinghAzadirachta indica var. minor ValetonAzadirachta indica var. siamensis ValentonMelia azadirachta L.Melia indica (A. International Common Names English: bastard tree; bead tree; cornucopia; Indian cedar; Indian lilac; margosa tree; neem; paradise tree; Persian lilacSpanish: margosa; mimFrench: azadirac de l'Inde; margosier; margousierArabic: azad-daraknul-hind Local Common Names Trade name neem Summary of Invasiveness A. indica has been extensively introduced throughout tropical and subtropical regions. Taxonomic Tree Notes on Taxonomy and Nomenclature Description Plant Type Distribution Distribution Table free

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Rights of Mother Earth - Gaia Psychology Rights of Mother Earth Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth Preamble We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny; gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well; recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today at risk through phenomena such as climate change; convinced that in an interdependent living community it is not possible to recognize the rights of only human beings without causing an imbalance within Mother Earth; conscious of the urgency of taking decisive, collective action to transform structures and systems that cause climate change and other threats to Mother Earth;

Cryo-electron microscopy wins chemistry Nobel : Nature News & Comment Left: Marietta Schupp/EMBL. Centre: Jorg Meyer. Right: LMB-MRC. From left: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson helped to develop cryo-electron microscopy. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for work that helps researchers see what biomolecules look like. Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the prize on 4 October for their work in developing cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that fires beams of electrons at proteins that have been frozen in solution, to deduce the biomolecules’ structure. For decades, biologists have used X-ray crystallography — blasting X-rays at crystallized proteins — to image biomolecular structures. Imaging solutions In the 1970s, Henderson, a molecular biologist who works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and his colleague Nigel Unwin were trying to determine the shape of a protein called bacteriorhodopsin. Resolution revolution V.

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Wikispecies - the species directory The revolution will not be crystallized: a new method sweeps through structural biology : Nature News & Comment Illustration by Viktor Koen In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way. A hulking metal box, some three metres tall, is quietly beaming terabytes’ worth of data through thick orange cables that disappear off through the ceiling. In labs around the world, cryo-electron microscopes such as this one are sending tremors through the field of structural biology. “There’s a huge range of very important biological problems that are now open to being tackled in a way that they could never before,” says David Agard, a structural cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Scheres was recruited to the LMB several years ago to help push cryo-EM technology to its limits — and he and his colleagues have done just that. Biologists are now pushing the technique further to deduce ever more detailed structures of small and shape-shifting molecules — a challenge even for cryo-EM. Crystal coaxing X-ray image: SPL

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