An East Nashville stone cottage once known as Mom Upchurch’s Boarding House, where Country Music Hall of Famers such as Grandpa Jones and members of the Carter family stayed, has been put up for sale. The century-old home at 620 Boscobel St. in the Edgefield neighborhood is listed for $389,000.Read More →
Former YouTube personality Jenna Marbles is engaged to her boyfriend, YouTuber Julien Solomita, after eight years of dating, according to an E! News report. Julien revealed the engagement during a Twitch stream on Friday, April 16. What is the age difference between Jenna and Julien? He’s actually her fiancé! ThoughRead More →
The phloem fibers are the dead cells with spindle-shaped, having a long narrow lumen, and thick walls. They are also called blast fibers. Are phloem fibers dead at maturity? Phloem cells conduct food from leaves to rest of the plant. They are alive at maturity and tend to stain greenRead More →
All living organisms are composed of cells, from just one (unicellular) to many trillions (multicellular). Cell biology is the study of cells, their physiology, structure, and life cycle. What type of organisms are made of cells? Trees in a forest, fish in a river, horseflies on a farm, lemurs inRead More →
A key finding is that the Siberian unicorn did not became extinct due to modern human hunting, nor even the peak of the last Ice Age starting around 25,000 years ago. Instead, it succumbed to a more subtle change in climate that reduced grassland from eastern Europe to China. HowRead More →
Crofts are usually rented. They are often part of large estates where the landowner is the crofter’s landlord. … They must live on the croft or find a tenant. Crofts often come with the right to graze animals like sheep or cows on an area of land. What are croftingRead More →
As adjectives the difference between alive and living is that alive is having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive while living is having life. What is live and alive? LiveRead More →
Properties of Life. All living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to define life. How consciousness is advantageous to living organisms? 1. Consciousness enables an organism toRead More →
Programmed cell death, a decision made by cells to die via a self-governed process, has been extensively studied in metazoans (multicellular organisms), however, evidence that unicellular organisms also undergo this process and even induce cell death in their host is growing. Do single celled organisms go through apoptosis? Apoptosis likeRead More →
The Danger Zone, and How to Find It For a 400 kilovolt pylon, the electricity pylons safe distance is a minimum of 50 metres, but if you can avoid it, you shouldn’t live closer than 100 metres to one, and the farther away you can get, the better. Do pylonsRead More →