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Cell Size and Scale Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification. A magnifying glass can help you to see them more clearly, but they will still look tiny. Smaller cells are easily visible under a light microscope. To see anything smaller than 500 nm, you will need an electron microscope. Adenine The label on the nucleotide is not quite accurate. How can an X chromosome be nearly as big as the head of the sperm cell? No, this isn't a mistake. The X chromosome is shown here in a condensed state, as it would appear in a cell that's going through mitosis. A chromosome is made up of genetic material (one long piece of DNA) wrapped around structural support proteins (histones). Carbon The size of the carbon atom is based on its van der Waals radius.
Biomedical Beat: May 20, 2009 - National Institute of General Me IN THIS ISSUE . . . May 20, 2009 Check out the Biomedical Beat Cool Image Gallery. Got research news to share? E-mail us at info@nigms.nih.gov. To change your subscription options or unsubscribe, visit Subscribe to the RSS version of Biomedical Beat by selecting this XML link and following your news reader's instructions for adding a feed. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, supports all research featured in this digest. NOTE: Hyperlinks within the text may have been deactivated because they no longer link to active sites and/or e-mail addresses. Hover over the image to see two snapshots of the fruit fly brain. Full story Cirelli profile Cirelli lab Article abstract (from the April 3 issue of Science) A long-lasting local anesthetic could revolutionize pain treatment. Full story Kohane profile Article abstract (from the April 13 online issue of PNAS)
top20biology.com Images of life on Earth Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.
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SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination | Pione It's Plantin' Time! One of the most anticipated science units in my classroom is our study of life cycles. We spend most of our fourth quarter studying the life cycles of plants, butterflies, frogs, and mealworms. It's one of my most favorite times of the year and one that my kiddos really look forward to! Our end of the year open house falls during this time and we made these flower booklets from myLife Cycle of Plants unit to showcase our plant study. However, we had few glitches! We started out with a parts of a seed lab, observing, writing and comparing predictions about what we would find inside of our seeds. After a couple of days we got this and had to start over! I love how this student included the mold in her diagram! We labeled diagrams of plants and wrote about the job of each plant part. You can grab a copy of these charts in my TPT shop {HERE} We also incorporated some comprehension strategies with this little cause and effect activity. Happy planting, teacher friends!