Notification of CSIR JRF NET, Life Science Examination

TMC ACTREC JRF Exam Notification 2016 for Ph.D in Life Sciences

TMC ACTREC JRF for Ph.D in Life Sciences, Notification, 2016 TATA MEMORIAL CENTRE Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) (A Grant-in-Aid Institution of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India) Applications are invited, in the prescribed format, for the award of JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (JRF 2016) […]

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Sex determination in Silene latifolia

Sex Determination in Melandrium album (Silene latifolia)

Majority of the flowering plants are monoecious with male and female reproductive parts are borne on the same flowers or different flowers of same plant. Only about 6% of Angiosperms are dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants).  The studies of sex determination mechanisms in plants were done only […]

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Sex determination mechanism

Genic Balance Theory of Sex Determination in Drosophila melanogaster

What is sex determination? Living organisms, with a very few exceptions, are differentiated into male and female individuals based on their morphological, physiological and behavioral characteristics. Even though the mechanism greatly varies, the sexes of the individuals are genetically determined. The biological system that determines the development of sexual characteristics […]

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Gram positive and gram negative staining

Difference Between Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria

Gram Positive vs Gram Negative Bacteria What is Grams staining? Christian Gram, a Danish Physician in 1884 developed a staining technique to distinguish two types of bacteria. The two categories of bacteria based on gram staining are Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria. Bacteria are first stained with crystal […]

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