Sonam Wangchuk (engineer) A Innovator and Education Reformist Sonam Wangchuk (born 1 September 1966) is a Ladakhi engineer, innovator and education reformist. He is the founding-director of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) which was founded in 1988 by a group of students who had been in his own words, the ‘victims’ […]
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Mushrooms Hydroponics Since mushrooms do not contain chlorophyll or photosynthesize, their tolerance for low light in extremely high. Light itself seems only to play a part in fungi life as a photosensitive cue for fruiting. Mushrooms are made of chitin instead of cellulose, the building block of most herbaceous plants. Chitin forms long, thread-like filaments
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Economic Importance of Pteridophytes Pteridophytes commonly known as Vascular Cryptogams, are the seedless vascular plants that evolved after bryophytes. Besides being a lower plant, pteridophytes are economically very important. Dry fronds of many ferns are used as a cattle feed. Pteridophytes are also used as a medicine. The decoction of foliage of Lycopodium is used
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The Most Dreadful and Dangerous Insects that Can Kill Humans The world is full of dangerous things that can kill us. There are hundreds of thousands of species of different insects and other creatures that can be found on earth. And among those creatures, there are different insects that are considered quite dangerous for human
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Organic farming Organic farming is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along with beneficial microbes (bio-fertilizers)
Importance of Non-Wood Forest Products in Joint Forest Management Joint Forest Management is the official and popular term in for partnerships in involving both the state forest departments and local communities. Villagers agree to assist in the safeguarding of forest resources through protection from fire, grazing, and illegal harvesting in exchange for which they receive
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Advance Packaging Aseptic describes a condition in which there is an absence of micro-organisms including viable spores. In the food industry the terms aseptic, sterile and commercial sterility are often interchangeably. The term “aseptic” is derived from the Greek word “septicos” which means the absence of putrefactive micro-organisms. Aseptic packaging can be defined as the
Bacterial Conjugation Conjugation is the direct transfer of DNA from one bacterial cell to another bacterial cell. The transferred DNA is a plasmid, a circle of DNA that is distinct from the main bacterial chromosome. The F plasmid is similar to a virus or a transposon in its ability to move independently of the main
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Cloning Vector A cloning vector is a DNA molecule in which foreign DNA can be inserted or integrated and which is further capable of replicating within host cell to produce multiple clones of recombinant DNA. Such a vector is called Cloning Vector. Plasmids and phages are the vectors used for cloning purposes, particularly in prokaryotes
Importance of Fish Migration Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. The purpose usually relates to either feeding or breeding; in some cases the reason for migration is still unknown. Factors Influencing
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