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BREATHING SAVASANA AND AIR MASKS

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Guys its been a while I got time to write a new post actually three years but there is positive point ,it added my experience of being assistant professor and teaching life-science, all seven different subjects in seven semesters . So I have a lot of things to add up... Life-science as you all know I started the topic as WE OURSELVES ARE MIRACLE ,MIRACLE THAT WE OFTEN NEGLECT. How many of us like YOGA!! YES YOGA !!!! There is one of the asanas or poses of yoga is "Savasana" where we are calmed relaxed and just focusing on our breathing yes breathing quite common?? Breathing that we usually do but we never notice , How to we breathe or respire? Normally if I ask my students they will say Mam we take oxygen in and exhale carbon dioxide out thats respiration ..not a big deal. If I ask them Does Plant respire? Is it a living thing? ahhh brain my brain that connects me to a hindi story i read in my childhood "money plant bana gaw

GENES

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Along with environment ,genetic constituents are of vital importance ,that is clear from my last post. Genes are the basic of life and it follows from generations.When we say she got her mother's genes and he got her father's complexion .All we are talking about is inheritance . Characters whether good or bad are inherited from generation to generation.Heredity is passing on the genetic information over generations. Two types of inheritance pattern are observed : Autosomal Inheritance (Dominant and recessive ) X-linked  Inheritance (Dominant and recessive) These both play a vital role in pedigree analysis of a particular disease that had been inherited through generations.Any gene except x chromosome are autosomal and x chromosomes are sex linked chromosome (that decides the gender).  The Female is XX  Male is XY Any of the X out of XX chromosomes is involved from the female side.It is male who decides the gender of  the child , if X then daughter if  Y then so

TWO MINUTES MAGGI :A DANGER ,WHY?

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Guys before another post, consider the news in air, MAGGI BEING BANNED!! .What do u think is the reason? Yes the excess lead quantity in it. Let me tell you Maggi is not the first neither the last in the list .there are many food items having lead and MSG quantities that is of harm to us.  Lead is the heavy material which is when ingested gets accumulated in the body and cause harmful effects specially in pregnant women and newborn babies as it affect CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM leading to mental retardation in children  below six years .Even adult are affected severely one of the effect being abdominal pain. High content of MSG and lead in Maggi was found. MSG is added to enhance flavor, though it is found naturally too but it is produced artificially by fermentation .Lead itself is present in environment even drinking water, but it should not be more then permissible quantity. In Maggi, seven times more lead content were found. Neurological Effects Peripheral ne

MUTATIONS AND GENETICS

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Darwin said survival of the fittest, is the key to evolution. Hence nature itself selects organism. Mutation is one of the main factor for evolution .Mutation can be refer to the error in gene or genome sequencing that can be of some loss but not always .It is of benefit as well. A mutation can make individual more efficient or less efficient. YES!! We all do have mutants around us that are not fiction or movie like X-MEN. Mutants are those who has problem in gene prior and after birth.                                                    Now other factor for evolution is the genetic constituent. So guys can u think of what we are made of yes obviously cells but what does it constitute off. Now don’t think of any bookish knowledge .Have not you heard people saying oh he has his father’s height, oh my god she is just as fair as her mother etc .yes actually we inherit qualities that have been passed on to generations in our family and how it passes ?? Well Mendel called it facto

Environment

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Hey guys.... In last post I ended with the note on that ultimate source of energy is sunlight and plant plays vital role in conversion of energy. The logic is very simple,we can not use Indian currency in America ,as it has no meaning there,thus energy in the form of Photo Motive Force can not be utilized by our cell, the energy currency for our body is ATP.Refer to Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry . Nothing is that complex as we see till now.Very simple logic indeed! Thus nature has reason behind everything existing.The primary source is energy that is needed by each and every system. Now lets take another very simple thing that we all see around us .What you guys can think of????? ENVIRONMENT !! yes that too plays vital role. Have you not seen that movie ? where identical twins in different environment behave differently?? yes that happens in real too.Many of us have infact seen that,let me tell you the occurrence of disease ,the effect ,time of occurrence, color complex

Creation of the "Miracle"

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Being the first blog lets start with very basic concept about miracle . What according to you is miracle?? Something which is not simple and regular ,something that is not explicable by nature or scientific laws. Then what is regular hmmm ...birth ,death ,how we are made? how other living organisms exist? how we see?talk ?walk ?etc etc.Well at an instance it might look as it is very normal but when you zoom each and every small things beneath it ,you are certainly going to admire the creation of nature.                     " LOGIC IS BEHIND EVERYTHING THAT EXIST !!" What are we ? combination of large number of processes,systems,genes etc working all together in controlled and coordinated way. Genes and environment all together hamper the making of an organism. Each and every process need what? ENERGY OBIVIOUSLY!!  Energy come from sunlight directly or indirectly and yes here to convert sunlight into energy PLANTS are of vital role.Guess what till now no machine is