Science is in the business of finding cause-effect relationships between things in the natural world—discovering how changes in one quantity cause changes in another. The quantities…
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How many face cards are there in a deck of cards? There are 12 of these face cards in a deck of cards, the face…
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Every second of each day, billions of chemical reactions are occurring in your body. These reactions extract energy from organic material to drive biological processes. In…
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In every cell of your body exists strands of DNA, wound into tightly coiled structures called chromosomes. Chromosomes are packets of genetic information that contain…
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How do plants eat? They do not have mouths and they cannot forage or hunt, so how do they get their food? Unlike animals like…
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Boyle’s law, sometimes referred to as Mariotte’s law, is a mathematical law that describes the behavior of a sample of an ideal gas. Boyle’s law…
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The cell is the most basic unit of life. All living things are made out of cells and cells are where the most basic metabolic…
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Do you remember the quadratic formula? How about the equation of a circle? What about the formula for exponents and logarithms? Odds are you have…
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Facilitated diffusion is a process that enables the selective movement/transport of substances in and out of a cell. The cell membrane has pores within it…
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