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Plant Water Regulation
A plant requires water as an essential ingredient of photolysis, the photochemical stage of photosynthesis where water is... Read More
Water in Plants
The movement of molecules, specifically water and any solutes, is vital to understand in light of plant processes. This will... Read More
Running Water Freshwater Communities
Running water freshwater communities are also known as lotic communities, lotic meaning running water. Lotic communities are... Read More
Freshwater Communities & Lentic Waters
Lentic (still water) communities can vary greatly in appearance, anything from a small temporary puddle to a large lake is... Read More
Animal Water Regulation
Homeostatic control, a set environment, and how evolution and natural selection drives a species to adapt to its environment... Read More
The Water Cycle
The water cycle (sometimes referred to as the hydrological cycle) is the continuous transfer of water from air, sea land and... Read More
Kidneys and Regulation of Water and Inorganic Ions
Renal Functions Kidneys remove/add substances from/to the plasma. Regulate water concentration, inorganic ion... Read More
Abiotic Factors – Water Conditions
Evidently, the light and heat from the sun play an important role in providing suitable conditions. However, the water... Read More
Still Water Community Plants
Freshwater Plants & Water As mentioned in the previous tutorial about still water plants, the method of transpiration... Read More
Running Water Freshwater Community Factors
This tutorial continues from the previous one, which introduced lotic (running water) communities. Here, some of the... Read More
Homeostasis of Organism Water Regulation
Osmoregulation Osmoregulation is the regulation of water concentrations in the bloodstream, effectively controlling the... Read More
Surface water
Definition noun (ecology) Water that is above the substrate or soil surface such as streams, bays, lakes, rivers, seas,... Read More
Still Freshwater & Plants
Plants in the freshwater community provide a means of food for herbivores and harness new energy into the community as a... Read More
Pollution in Freshwater Ecosystems
As with all ecosystems, the existence and operations of human society inevitably have an effect on the way of life in a... Read More
Turgor pressure
In biology, turgor pressure pertains to the pressure that is exerted by the fluid (e.g. water) against the cell wall. It is... Read More
Hypertonic solution
Hypertonic Solution Definition Hypertonic solution is a relative term that describes the solution having a higher amount of... Read More
Hydrophobic
Hydrophobic Definition The fear of mixing or reacting with water under a given set of reaction parameters is often referred... Read More
Metabolic Water
Definition noun The water produced as an end product of the oxidation of energy-containing molecules such as carbohydrates,... Read More
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Osmotic pressure
Osmotic Pressure Definition Osmotic pressure is the pressure caused by a difference in the amounts of solutes (or... Read More
Dehydration reaction
What is dehydration synthesis? A dehydration reaction is a form of biochemical reaction wherein a water molecule is lost or... Read More
Water-soluble vitamin
Definition noun, plural: water-soluble vitamins Any of the group of vitamins that dissolve in water and excreted rather... Read More
Hydrophilic
Hydrophilic Definition What does a hydrophile (or hydrophilic molecule) mean? If a molecule is “water-loving”, it is... Read More
Hypotonic solution
Hypotonic Solution Definition What is a hypotonic solution? It refers to a solution that contains a lower amount of solute... Read More
Plasmolysis
Plasmolysis is the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium. The protoplasmic shrinking is... Read More
Water table
water table (Science: ecology) The zone of saturation at the highest average depth during the wettest season, it is at least... Read More
Still Water Animals
Through millions of years of evolution, animals living in an aquatic environment have diversified to occupy the ecological... Read More
Macrophytes
Introduction Examples of Macrophytes. (Source: Canada's AquaticEnvironments) ... Read More
Vascular plants
Definition of Vascular plants The term 'vascular' is derived from the Latin word vāsculum, vās, meaning "a container and... Read More
Chemical Composition of the Body
In order to fully understand the mechanisms of human physiology, it is important to have an understanding of the chemical... Read More
Wild dolphins learn to “tail-walk” on the water, yet it’s just a fad
Dolphins performing acrobatic tricks have, time and again, fascinated and mesmerized people. As early as 1860s, capturers... Read More
Micromolecule
Micromolecules Definition How to define micromolecule? Micromolecules are relatively small molecules that are combined... Read More
Plant Metabolism
Introduction Plants are responsible for incredible feats of molecular transformation. The processes are always being... Read More
Hypertonic
Hypertonic Definition Hypertonic is a term used to describe an entity being in the state of hypertonicity, where there is a... Read More