What is Autotrophic Nutrition?
Autotrophic Nutrition The process by which plants collect essential components from the environment and synthesize food for themselves is known as autotrophic nutrition. It is […]
Articles by Dr. Asha Jyoti
Difference between Mycoplasma and Bacteria
Introduction Microorganisms are categorized under bacteria, viruses, fungi, and mycoplasma. Some of the microorganisms are disease-causing some are saprophytes or some are heterotopic in nature. […]
Differences between gymnosperms and angiosperms
Introduction Plants are an integral part of our life and earth system. The plant kingdom is widely classified into Spermatophyte and Aspermatophyta. Spermatophyta, as the […]
Are viruses living or not? Origin and properties
Introduction Are viruses living or not? is a very difficult question to understand. The virus has attributes of both living organisms and nonliving objects. Thus it […]
Difference between Active and Passive immunity
Immunity Definition It is the ability of a body to fight against disease-causing microorganisms is called immunity. the following article is about the Difference between […]
Plasma membrane: Definition and Composition
Definition A plasma membrane is defined as a covering or envelope which encloses almost all types of cells whether it is plant or animal. It […]
Virus difference: animal, plant, & bacteriophage
Difference between animal, plant virus, and bacteriophage Viruses are very small even smaller than bacteria and are mainly parasitic in nature. Depending upon the host, […]
Types of viruses: structure, classification and reproduction
Introduction There is no nomenclature system for virus classification since they are not considered truly living. As we all know living organisms have a definite […]
Types and simple definition for viruses and structure
Virus definition In Latin, the word virus means poisonous or venomous fluid coined by Dmitri Ivanowsky (1892). He recognized certain microbes causing mosaic diseases of […]
Plant secondary metabolites: Types and Functions
Introduction We are studying a lot about flavonoids and alkaloids in food and their health benefits in day-to-day blogs. Today with the concept of superfoods […]