Biology

Plant Nutrition Plants need nutrients for the same reasons that animals need them. They need them to germinate, grow, fight off diseases and pests, and…

Plant pathology is a branch of botany concerned with the diseases of plants. It is the science that studies the causes of plant diseases, the…

A double membrane consisting of an outer and an inner phospholipid bilayer is the nuclear envelope, also known as the nuclear membrane. It is present…

Anaerobic digestion is the process by which organic matter such as animal or food waste is broken down to produce biogas and biofertilizer. It is…

An amyloplast is an organelle that is present in plant cells involved in different biological pathways. Specifically, amyloplasts are a leucoplast type, a subcategory for…

Plastids are storage organelles contained in plant cells, including chromoplasts (they carry colored pigments for organisms such as flowers) and chloroplasts (which carry the green…

Nekton or necton, the assemblage of pelagic animals which swim freely, independent of water movement or wind, from the Greek nekton meaning “to swim”. In…

Hermit Crab, any crab of the Paguridae and Coenobitidae families (class Crustacea Decapoda order). These crabs are superfamily Paguroidea anomuran decapod crustaceans who adapted to…

Carrying Capacity is the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed by a vehicle or container. The carrying capacity of an…

Sea anemone, any member of Actiniaria (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria) invertebrate order, soft-bodied, mainly flowers-like, sedentary marine animals. The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) takes…

Brassicaceae (/ˌbræsɪˈkeɪsii/) or Cruciferae (/kruːˈsɪfəri/) the mustard family of flowering plants (order Brassicales), composed of 338 genera and some 3,700 species. This is a genus…

Soil is a vast reservoir for a wide diversity of organisms. Soil ecology is the study of how soil organisms interact with other organisms and…