Ashok Kumar Sharma
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Nutrition science investigates the metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet. With advances in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, the study of nutrition is increasingly concerned with metabolism and metabolic pathways: the sequences of biochemical steps through which substances in living things change from one form to another. Nitrogen s needed by animals to build proteins. Carnivore and herbivore diets vary in their ...
The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the perceived palatability of foods. Dietitians are health professionals who specialize in human nutrition, meal planning, economics, and preparation. They are trained to provide safe, evidence-based dietary advice and management to individuals (in Health and disease) as well as to institutions. A poor diet can have an injurious impact on health, causing deficiency diseases such as scurvy, ...
Asexual reproduction can be very advantageous to certain animals. Animals that remain in one particular place and are unable to look for mates would need to reproduce asexually. Another advantage of asexual reproduction is that numerous offspring can be produced without costing the parent a great amount of energy of time. Environments that are stable and experience very little change are the best places for organisms that reproduce asexually. A disadvantage of ...
World Famous Prophesies and Predictions is the thirty-ninth book in this series. The philosophy that a person is a mere puppet in the hands of destiny is open to argument. It may be right or wrong. But, it is equally true that in the heart of the most ardent antagonist of the theory of fate lies the latent desire to know the future. Astrology must have taken shape and developed to fulfill this psychological need of human beings. Since, it is a collective will, ...
Ghosts may not be real but strange accounts about them have given rise to all kinds of stories. So strong is the compelling power of such accounts that even the die-hard rationalists start having doubts. In fact, there are stories of ghosts and spirits from all over the world. And the interesting thing is that many people actually claim to have seen ghosts! This book is an honest attempt to chronicle such accounts from different parts of the globe. The reader ...