Genetic code – a divine writing
Ever wondered why your nose resembles your father’s nose? This is due to the inheritance of traits from generation to generation. Our modern understanding of how traits may be passed...
Category: Class XI-XII
Who discovered the cell?
Cells are the known to be the smallest units of life. Each cell is a universe on its own, containing a nucleus with genetic material, a membrane that protects the...
Plant Hormones: Gibberellins and Abscisic acid
Just as the human body uses hormones to regulate numerous processes throughout the body, the same is true for the plant body. Plant hormones are chemicals that play a key...
Did we really evolve from Chimpanzees?
Homo sapiens are not descendants of monkeys or any other modern-day primates that we observe in our ecosystem or biosphere. Although we do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees...
DNA Fingerprinting: Modern Day Sherlock Holmes
Do you remember watching crime TV shows when you were a kid? Remember how in CID whenever a crime would take place the detectives would search for fingerprints. This approach has...
PYQ NEET MCQ Chapter 10: Cell Cycle and Division
Cell Cycle and Cell Division introduce us to the cycle that every cell undergoes for replication. This cycle includes the interphase where the cell prepares itself for division by increasing...
PYQ NEET MCQ Chapter 13: Photosynthesis in Higher Plants
This chapter discusses the most interesting biochemical process in our ecosystem called photosynthesis. Autotrophs use this reaction to convert light energy from the sun to chemical energy. It is this...
PYQ NEET MCQ Chapter 6: Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Hola NEET aspirants! After learning about principles that genes follow when inheritance happens and the variations that they go through, we come upon the Molecular Basis of this inheritance. This...
How does our body fight pathogens?
The human body has an inbuilt mechanism to produce a response whenever an outside pathogen bearing an antigen enters the body. The antigen is anything that produces antibodies; it could...
What is the basis of Animal Kingdom Classification?
Animals are cosmopolitan organisms that exhibit different structures and forms. Since the discovery of animals species is increasing at an exponential rate, the need for animal classification becomes the need...
