Thursday, January 8, 2015

Meningitis

Meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges (membranes surrounding the brain and the spinal cord) this disease is caused by bacteria or other micro organisms, some forms are infectious and some are not. Meningitis is considered as a mental emergency by the WHO (World Health Organisation) . The usual symptoms of Meningitis are :
1) Headache
2) Neck stiffness or neck pain
3) Confusion
4) Altered consciousness 
5) Photophobia ( fear of light)
6) Vomiting
7) Rashes 
8) High temper
I hope all of you liked this biology lesson and understood it, if you did, thank you and if you didn't , read it again .

Corona

Corona is a layer of plasma (over heated gas) surrounding  the sun . Corona cannot be seen by the naked eye unless there is a total solar eclipse because the corona's glow is a million times lesser than the photosphere's but it can also be observed through a coronagraph or a coronameter which can block the light of the sun using an artificial disk so that the items surrounding the sun can be observed . Three types of corona have been observed using the coronagraph , they are :
1) The White Light Corona
2) The Emission Line Corona
3 The X-ray Corona
                    


Dolly the sheep

Hello again,



Today, im gonna write about Dolly, the first living creature to be cloned or to be more precise the first and 'only 'domestic Finn Dorset female sheep' to be cloned . She was cloned by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell by the process of nuclear transfer. They were funded for the cloning by PPL therapeutics and the ministry of agriculture , the cell for cloning was taken from a mammary gland.

Zebroids

Have you ever heard of animal hybrids Like the Wholphin ( mix of a bottle nose dolphin with a killer whale) , Liger ( mix of a lion and a tiger) 
etcetera ?????, well, if u haven't, in simple language an animal hybrid is a mix of the chromosomes of an animal with another animal.
So basically ' Zebroids' are Zebra hybrids and there are many zebra hybrids like the Zebra mule, The Zonkey , The Zorse etcetera. Zebra hybrids are extremely rare and they are really very very hard to find, actually if you spot one , it's a great thing and don't forget to take a picture of it. These amazing Zebra hybrids started breeding since the 19th century and they still exist. Charles Robert Darwin, the great biologist or geologist noted a lot of zebra hybrids in his works. Here is a picture of a Zorse.