C - Ascorbic Acid

unlike most animals, are unable to synthesize vitamin C, so it is an essential dietary...

B5 - Pantothenic Acid

oats, and mushrooms. Bacteria synthesize pantothenic acid from the amino acids...

Carotenoids

a class of more than 750 pigments synthesized by plants, algae, and photosynthetic...

Vitamin

in limited amounts but cannot synthesize in sufficient quantities. There are 13...

Lotus-Eaters Lotophagi

lotus-tree. The lotus fruit is about the size of the lentisk berry and in sweetness...

Vegetarianism

St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas, emphasized that man owes no duties to animals....

Humans and Biosphere

was almost instant. The rhinoceros-sized wombat, the ten-foot kangaroo, the marsupial...

Viruses

Virion is about one one-hundredth the size of a bacterium.

Bacteria and Archaea

Only bacteria and some archaea synthesize vitamin B12 and provide it through the food...

Marine Animals Populations Half in 40 Years since 1970

and fish shows a decline of 49% in the size of marine populations between 1970 and...