Showing posts with label Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biology. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 April 2015

25 Amazing Facts About Human Body


Even though you're around human bodies all day (after all, you have one of your very own), you probably don't know everything there is to know about them. Each of our bodies are a miracle; it's amazing they work the way they do, day in and day out. If you thought what our bodies could do before, once you read this list of insane facts about the human body, you'll be in awe. Never take your own body for granted, because some of the things it can do are mind-blowing.

1.) The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill 2 swimming pools.

2.) Every 60 seconds, your red blood cells do a complete circuit of your body.

3.) Sometimes, when you have to pee, you can visibly see that your bladder is bigger.

4.) Most babies are born with blue eyes; exposure to UV light brings out their true color.

5.) Most westerners consume 50 tons of food and 50,000 liters of liquid in their lifetime.

6.) It can take your finger and toenails 1/2 a year to grow an entirely new nail (from base to tip).

7.) The muscles that control your eyes contract about 100,000 times a day (that's the equivalent of giving your legs a workout by walking 50 miles).

8.) Over the course of your lifetime, you'll shed about 40lbs of skin.

9.) Your brain uses about 20% of your oxygen and caloric intake.

10.) In each kidney, there are 1 million filters that clean around 1.3 liters of blood every minute and push out close to 1.5 liters of urine every day.

11.) Ovaries contain over 500,000 eggs, but only about 400 get the opportunity to create life.

12.) Everyone has a completely unique smell (except for twins).

13.) Why doesn't your stomach digest itself? That's because your stomach cells are created faster than they can be destroyed.

14.) You have about half-a-million sweat glands that produce about a pint of sweat daily.

15.) Humans are extremely visual; 90% of the information we gather from our surroundings is from our eyesight.

16.) It's nearly impossible to tickle yourself.

17.) Baby foreskin is often used as a skin graft for burn victims.

18.) Your bones, pound for pound, are 4x stronger than concrete.

19.) Your skin is the largest organ in your body; if an adult male's skin were to be stretched out, it would cover 20 square feet.

20.) In order to taste something, our saliva needs to dissolve it (try drying off your tongue and tasting something).

21.) Men produce about 10 million new sperm daily (approximately enough to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months).

22.) In just 30 minutes, your body can produce enough heat to boil half a gallon of water.

23.) There are more than 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs and if they were stretched out tip to tip they would reach approximately the distance between Atlanta and LA.

24.) Frequent dreams are correlated with having a higher IQ.

25.) You'll be about 1cm shorter when you go to bed at night compared to when you wake up in the morning. Your cartilage in your spine slowly compresses throughout the day.

Amazing Facts About Animal


If you’re looking for the most interesting list of animal facts, you’re at the right place! Here are 50 of the best fun & random facts about animals!
  • Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
  • A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
  • Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
  • A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
  • The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
  • The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
  • Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
  • Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
  • On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
  • Deer have no gall bladders.
  • There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
  • Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
  • In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
  • The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
  • The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
  • Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
  • The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
  • The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.
  • A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
  • For every human in the world there are one million ants.
  • If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
  • If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
  • Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
  • The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
  • The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
  • The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
  • Alligators can live up to 100 years.
  • A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
  • The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
  • A housefly hums in the key of F.
  • During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
  • Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
  • To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
  • It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
  • Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
  • Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
  • The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
  • Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
  • Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
  • A group of owls is called a parliament.
  • Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
  • Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
  • Cows have four stomachs.
  • An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
  • The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
  • A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
  • A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
  • At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long—no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
  • The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
  • There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!

Friday, 17 April 2015

Relationship Between Physics and Biology


Biology is the study of living organisms. Physics is the study of matter and the laws of nature to understand the behavior of matter and the universe. The Biophysical Society explains that, when scientists combine physics and biology, they learn more about biological systems on a molecular or atomic level. By taking a quantitative approach to biological questions, a scientist gains a better understanding of patterns that occur in living organisms.
This Is The Main Relationship Between Physics and Biology.

Definition of Biology

Biology is the study of life and organisms. This natural science includes the origin, evolution, function, structure and distribution of living organisms. The discipline also concerns itself with topics like the classification of organisms, an organism’s ability to regulate its internal environment, how structures function as a whole, and the interaction of living organisms within an environment. Basic biological concepts include the study of cells as basic structural units of life, genetics and heredity, and transformation of energy by organisms while growing, developing and adapting to their environments.

Definition of Physics

Physics is the study of energy and matter and how the two interact through time and space. As physicists study the natural word, they attempt to answer questions about the behavior of the universe. Physicists study events that occur in nature, such as the passing of time, and use principles or patterns to explain and make predictions about such events in the natural world.

Biology and Physics Working Together

Physics provides the basis for biology. Without space, matter, energy and time -- components that make up the universe -- living organisms would not exist. Physicist Richard Feynman said that everything on earth is made of atoms, basic units of matter, that constantly move. Since biology has its foundation in physics, it applies physical natural laws to the study of living organisms, according to Muskegon Community College. For instance, physics helps explain how bats use sound waves to navigate in the dark and how wings give insects the ability to move through the air. The American Physical Society shares that many flowers arrange their seeds or petals in a Fibonacci-like sequence to maximize exposure to light and nutrients. In some cases, biology helps prove physical laws and theories. Feynman states that biology helped scientists come up with the law of conservation of energy.

The Odd Couple

There are instances when physics disproves or can’t explain biological occurrences and vice versa. For example, physics can’t account for the encryption of traits in DNA or historical contingencies as they relate to evolution. Physics and biology can’t explain the origin of life or how inorganic objects transitioned to organic life. Cornell University states that the biological theory of evolution contradicts the second law of thermodynamics because nature can’t create order out of disorder -- and evolution is a process that creates increasing levels of order. Scientists wishing to bridge the gaps between physics and biology use biophysics, a science that relies on theories and methods related to physics to study and explain biological systems.

12 Surprising Facts About Sex And Women


1. Cycles of light affect our fertility
Women used to menstruate during the new moon (when it’s dark at night) and ovulate during a full moon (when it’s light). Now, in a world full of artificial lighting and bright screens, women are not as in tune with the connection between their biology and nature. Some have tried “lunaception,” altering the lights in their bedrooms based on the moon lighting to change their ovulation.
2. Women can get pregnant five to eight days after having sex
Studies have shown that some sperm can live in the cervical mucus crypt before the egg is actually fertilized for anywhere from five to eight days after sex.
3. Wearing high heels can negatively affect a woman’s orgasm
Certain high-end shoe brands developed the arch in their high-heeled shoes to approximate the arch in a woman’s pelvis when she is having an orgasm. The heels create a contraction in the pelvic floor, which is problematic because the pelvic floor then cannot contract further during orgasm. “An orgasm is usually like going from zero to 60,” explains Fromberg. “If you’re already at 55 [from wearing heels], you’re not going to have a full experience.”
4. Orgasms can make women more creative
Studies have shown that orgasms can make women more confident, productive and creative. And it’s a feedback loop—women achieve fuller orgasms when they are being creative.
5. Birth control pills dampen the libido
Any hormonal contraception has that psychological side effect. Sometimes women even have trouble conceiving once they’re off the pill because while they may have been attracted to their partner on the pill, they’re not actually compatible with each other biochemically without the extra hormones.
6.  Sitting in chairs can arouse women
Pudendal nerves, underneath the buttox and the sitting bones, feed arousal tissues (in the vagina, clitoris, anus, etc.). Sitting in a certain kind of chair pressing on the pudendal nerves in a certain way can lead to sexual arousal.
7. …But it can also dampen their orgasms
On the other hand, sitting in chairs for most of the day shortens the pelvic floor and psoas muscles—muscles which are essential to a full-body orgasm. When these muscles are tight from sitting too much, women find it harder to achieve a great orgasm.
8. Women have three erogenous zones 
The clitoris, the G Spot, AND the opening of the cervix. Some argue nipples belong on that list too.
9. Nerve endings are distributed differently in every woman’s vagina
Like a snowflake, each woman is unique in that her nerve endings are distributed in her genitalia differently than anyone else. That means, every woman needs to employ slightly different methods to achieve orgasm.
10. The pulsations a woman feels during orgasm are actually her uterus trying to gather sperm
Round ligaments that end in the labia majora “rock the uterus back and forth during orgasm so that the cervix has the opportunity to potentially scoop semen up that may have pooled in the back of the vagina to enhance fertility,” says Fromberg.
11. Being well hydrated leads to better orgasms
Because the body is mostly fluid, being hydrated enhances people’s ability to achieve orgasm.
12. All woman can achieve orgasm
Almost no woman was born unable to achieve an orgasm. “Women have the innate machinery programmed to have orgasms,” Fromberg explains. “But not everybody learns how to use that machinery well.”