enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scavenger - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger

    Obligate scavenging (subsisting entirely or mainly on dead animals) is rare among vertebrates, due to the difficulty of finding enough carrion without expending too much energy. Well-known invertebrate scavengers of animal material include burying beetles and blowflies , which are obligate scavengers, and yellowjackets .

  3. Scavenger (chemistry) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger_(chemistry)

    In atmospheric chemistry, the most common scavenger is the hydroxyl radical, a short-lived radical produced photolytically in the atmosphere. It is the most important oxidant for carbon monoxide, methane and other hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and most of other contaminants, removing them from the atmosphere.

  4. Thioglycolate broth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioglycolate_broth

    Unlike obligate anaerobes, though, they are not poisoned by oxygen. They can be found evenly spread throughout the test tube. Thioglycolate broth is a multipurpose, enrichment, differential medium used primarily to determine the oxygen requirements of microorganisms.

  5. Commensalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensalism

    Remora are specially adapted to attach themselves to larger fish (or other animals, in this case a sea turtle) that provide locomotion and food.. Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed. [1]

  6. Magdeburg hemispheres - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres

    The experiment became a popular way to illustrate the principles of air pressure, and many smaller copies of the hemispheres were made, and are used to this day in science classes. Reenactments of von Guericke's experiment of 1654 are performed in locations around the world by the Otto von Guericke Society.

  7. Glossary of experimental design - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_experimental...

    Design of Experiments: A systematic, rigorous approach to engineering problem-solving that applies principles and techniques at the data collection stage so as to ensure the generation of valid, defensible, and supportable engineering conclusions [1] Design Point: A single combination of settings for the independent variables of an experiment.

  8. Experiment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment

    An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale but always rely on ...

  9. Biological tests of necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_tests_of...

    In biological research, experiments or tests are often used to study predicted causal relationships between two phenomena. [1] These causal relationships may be described in terms of the logical concepts of necessity and sufficiency. Consider the statement that a phenomenon x causes a phenomenon y.