Caffeine: alkaloid present in coffee What is alkaloid Alkaloid is any component of the group of plant-derived organic nitrogen compounds. Alkaloids have several pharmacological properties, ie they can be used in the manufacture of medicines. Most alkaloids are used in medicine as analgesics and anesthetics.

This is no doubt a simple question. I was reading about Sterile Insect Technique where sterile males out-compete non-sterile ones to mate with females and thus reduce the population. My questi…

Extinction (the complete disappearance of a species from Earth) is an important part of the evolution of life on Earth. The current diversity of species is a product of the processes of extinction and speciation throughout the previous 3.8 billion year history of life. Raup (1991) assumed that there might be 40 million species alive today, but between 5 and 50 billion species have lived at some time during the history of the Earth.

I know the answer is no. But what then explains the name of these receptors being specific to Cannabinoid found in cannabis? Aren't Cannabinoid receptors exclusive to Cannabinoid? Why are they name…

First of all, we all have a circadian clock than is run endogenously by differential gene expression and controls our change in awakeness, temperature, hormone levels, etc… Circadian clocks are not

In a lab we used distilled water + 3 drops of soap to examine how beetroot would be affected by it. I believe the beetroots membrane denatured and a red pigment leaked from it. However, I cannot ex…