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33 unusual facts about biology


AGML

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is particularly well suited to represent biological data and methods and is the choice to do this in most areas.

Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School

The current and future classes include: Medical Science 1 and 2, Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy.

Brandon Copeland

Copeland attended Bridgewater College for four years and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Carol Peletier

Sophia is left in a catatonic state as the news reaches her, and has since attempted to repress all memories of Carol by pretending that Maggie and Glenn are her biological parents.

Chris D. Thomas

He completed his first degree (BA) in Applied Biology at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel A. Livingstone

Daniel A. Livingstone is the James B Duke Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, in the Department of Biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Deanne Bray

A California native, Bray broke into the entertainment industry after she was discovered performing with a deaf dancing group called "Prism West" at a deaf festival at California State University, Northridge, where she earned a B.A. degree in Biology.

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

A Biology undergraduate course is currently run in conjunction with the Department of Zoology, Oxford.

Detlef Weigel

In 2002, he accepted an appointment as Scientific Member and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, where he founded the Department for Molecular Biology.

Douglas Koshland

He was a staff scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science from 1987 and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University.

Ergonomics in Canada

Ergonomics has been taught as a university subject for many years, but in a variety of departments ranging from kinesiology, psychology and biological sciences to industrial relations, industrial engineering, systems engineering and other engineering disciplines.

George B. Craig

(July 8, 1930 — December 21, 1995) was an American biologist and entomologist, the Clark Professor of Biology at the University of Notre Dame, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Merit Award.

Gerald Schatten

He is Professor and Vice-Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also Director of the Division of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the university's School of Medicine.

Gillian Small

In 1992, she became a faculty member at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where she directed a laboratory as well as served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

Hessam Nowzari

Nowzari(Iranian) holds a PhD in Biology and Health Sciences and many international positions.

Howard Birndorf

Birndorf received his B.A. in Biology from Oakland University, an M.S. in Biochemistry from Wayne State University, and has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Oakland University and Wayne State University.

Hubert Yockey

He has studied the application of information theory to problems in biology and published his conclusions in the Journal of Theoretical Biology from 1974 onwards.

Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley

She was educated at Notre Dame High School in Liverpool, before attending Liverpool University from where she graduated with a BSc in Biology in 1966, and later completed a PGCE at Manchester Polytechnic in 1979.

John Pickstone

John Pickstone is currently Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.

Johnny Matson

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Biology from Eastern Illinois University in 1973, a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology, also from Eastern Illinois University the following year.

Joseph Felsenstein

International Prize for Biology by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Kåre Bremer

Following this Bremer was installed as Professor of Systematic Botany at Uppsala University in 1989, where he also became head of the department from 1992 to 1999, and Dean of Biology from 1993-1999.

Koforidua Senior High Technical School

The Physics and Biology labs number same as the chemistry labs which are found in a storey, the main, and the other, in a normal building.

Models of abnormality

The four main models to explain psychological abnormality are the Biological, Behavioural, Cognitive, and Psychodynamic models.

Moshe David Tendler

He is a senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University's RIETS and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research.

Preston Montford

Opened as a Field Centre in 1957, Preston Montford is visited by large numbers of 15-18 year old students of Biology and Geography, as well as by younger aged school groups.

Pushpa Mittra Bhargava

Pushpa M Bhargava is the founder-director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology situated in Hyderabad, India.

Richard Losick

Along with Daniel Kahne and Robert Lue, he teaches Life Sciences 1a, the introductory Biology/Chemistry course at Harvard College, which is the College's third largest lecture course.

Robert Enders

After he graduated he became an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Union College, and next year got the same position at Missouri Valley College.

Scott Strobel

In 2008 he received the Schering Plough Research Institute award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Steven Vogel

Steven Vogel is the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University.

Taruna Madan Gupta

Ph.D. - Jointly with Delhi Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (DIPER), University of Delhi and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi.


Acarospora janae

It is known only from the type locality, and a modern collection made from Marks Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, although Knudsen suggests that it may occur infrequently from Utah and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico.

Armando Theodoro Hunziker

He had specialized in the study of systems biology of the Solanaceae family, having contributed with a large number of investigations and publications.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Barbara Ikai

She read Noam Chomsky's Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk., Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, and Andrew B. Newberg's Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief.

Bartolomé Gamundi

A former General Manager at Electro Biology Corp., and a former executive at Arthur Andersen, Price Waterhouse, GE and Weston Instruments, Gamundi is a former president of the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association and of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce.

Blue-winged Leafbird

It commonly includes Jerdon's Leafbird (C. jerdoni) from the Indian Subcontinent, and the Bornean Leafbird (C. kinabaluensis) from northern Borneo as subspecies, but differs from both in measurements and morphology, with Jerdon's lacking any blue to the flight feathers, and Bornean having a distinctive male-like female plumage.

BPS domain

In molecular biology, the BPS domain (Between PH and SH2) domain is a protein domain of approximately 45 amino acids found in the adaptor proteins Grb7Grb10/Grb14.

Broadnose catshark

The broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the holotype and only specimen being found in deepwater in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean between latitudes 16° N and 10° N.

Btz domain

In molecular biology, the Btz domain (CASC3/Barentsz eIF4AIII binding domain) is a protein domain found on CASC3 (cancer susceptibility candidate gene 3 protein) which is also known as Barentsz (Btz).

Buddleja 'Pink Delight'

Buddleja 'Pink Delight' is a cultivar raised by the Horticultural Research Institute in Boskoop, Netherlands, in 1986 from the hybrid B. davidii 'Fascination' × B. davidii var. nanhoensis 'Alba' × B. 'West Hill'.

Cinacalcet

Cinacalcet (INN) is a drug that acts as a calcimimetic (i.e. it mimics the action of calcium on tissues) by allosteric activation of the calcium-sensing receptor that is expressed in various human organ tissues.

Fa Hien Cave

The human remains from the different levels were taken to the Human Biology Laboratory at Cornell University, where they were studied by Dr Kenneth A. R. Kennedy and one of his graduate students, Joanne L. Zahorsky.

Force spectroscopy

In this way a great deal has been learned in recent years about the mechanochemical coupling in the enzymes responsible for muscle contraction, transport in the cell, energy generation (F1-ATPase), DNA replication and transcription (polymerases), DNA unknotting and unwinding (topoisomerases and helicases), and so on.

George J. Trautman, III

Lieutenant General Trautman earned a B.S. in Biology from Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.

Gymnobela granulisculpturata

Gymnobela granulisculpturata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Hans Melchior

Among his many contributions to taxonomy are his treatments of the Medusagynaceae, Theaceae, Violaceae, and Canellaceae for the second edition of the Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien of Engler & K. Prantl, the publication as editor with E. Werdermann, of ed.

Isotropy

; Cell biology: If the properties of the cell wall are more or less the same everywhere, it is said to be isotropic.

James L. Reveal

Reveal is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, adjunct professor at Cornell University's Department of Plant Biology and honorary curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

Jerusalem artichoke

Despite its name, the Jerusalem artichoke has no relation to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though both are members of the daisy family.

Jibou Botanical Garden

The works for the organization of the Botanical Garden from Jibou started between the years 1959-1968, when Vasile Fati (1932-2007), a biology teacher, with the students and with the other teachers manages to prove that the parks around Wesselényi Castle, where the high school was functioning is appropriate for a botanical garden.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

John H. Healey

Healey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Yale University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

José Ignacio Borrero

He was a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Valle at Cali.

Kiril Bratanov

Between 1943 and 1986, Kiril Bratanov was director of the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction and Development of Organisms at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Lined catshark

The lined catshark or banded catshark (Halaelurus lineatus) is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found from Beira, Mozambique to East London, South Africa between latitudes 19° S and 31° S, from the surface to 290 m.

Lithoglyphus apertus

The type locality is "in der Save bei Agram in Croatien", which means in the Sava River near Zagreb, Croatia.

MATH domain

The MATH domain, in molecular biology, is a binding domain that was defined originally by a region of homology between otherwise functionally unrelated domains, the intracellular TRAF-C domains of TRAF proteins and a C-terminal region of extracellular meprins A and B.

Michelle Izmaylov

She is a medical student who currently attends the Vanderbilt School of Medicine as a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar after graduating from Emory University in May 2013 with a BS degree (having double majored in Chemistry and Biology).

Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Mycoprotein

Mycoprotein (also known as fungal protein) is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the albuminoid which is the principal constituent of the protoplasm of the cell." "Myco" is from the Greek word for "fungus".

Neoephemera antiqua

N. antiqua was first studied by Nina D. Sinitchenkova of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with her 1999 type description being published in the Russian text Palaeontological Journal.

Obaid Siddiqi

He was invited by Homi Bhabha, to set up the Molecular Biology Unit at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay in 1962.

Ornithoptera allotei

allotei was described by Rothschild in 1914 as a species, despite the assertion by its discoverer, Abbé Allotte, a priest at the Buin Mission, Bougainville Island, that it was a natural hybrid.

Oscarella carmela

Analysis of the genome suggests that the last common ancestor of sponges and eumetazoan animals (a clade that contains all the higher animals except the sponges and placozoans) was more complex both genetically and morphologically than had previously been thought.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.

Penescosta sororcula

Penescosta sororcula is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

Polyploid complex

In Crepis and some other herbaceous perennial species, a polyploid complex may arise where there are at least 2 genetically isolated diploid populations, in addition to auto- and allopolyploid derivatives that coexist and interbreed (hybridise).

Rhacophorus rhodopus

So the actual situation seems to be that the three taxa refer to two, not three species, with R. htunwini being a junior synonym of R. bipunctatus – possibly a restricted-range endemic of upland forest at the eastern end of the Himalayas, though it might occur south to Malaysia –, and R. namdaphaensis a junior synonym of R. rhodopus, a species that ranges widely from eastern India to the east and south and also occurs in lower-lying regions.

Smallmouth velvet dogfish

The smallmouth knifetooth dogfish, Scymnodon obscurus, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the central Atlantic between latitudes 65°N and 36°S, from the surface to 1,450 m.

Smoothback angelshark

The smoothback angelshark, Squatina oculata, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found in the eastern Atlantic between latitudes 47°N and 28°S.

SPAWN

SPAWN’s water conservation program is focused on reducing the impacts of stormwater runoff on local streams and ensuring adequate in stream flow and spawning and rearing habitat for coho salmon and steelhead in the Lagunitas Creek.

Spotted houndshark

The spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on the continental shelves in the eastern Pacific from the Galapagos Islands and Peru to northern Chile, between latitudes and 30° S.

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

The Taiwan saddled carpetshark, Cirrhoscyllium formosanum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found around Taiwan, between latitudes 28°N and 21°N, at depths down to 110 m.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.

White-browed Fulvetta

The White-browed Fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae.

Yap Cicadabird

The Yap Cicadabird (Coracina nesiotis), sometimes considered to be a distinctive subspecies of the Common Cicadabird, is a species of bird in the Cuckooshrike, or Campephagidae, family.