My Biology Musings

Nature, Nature, Nature...! People talk a lot about nature and the environment, but it's sad; that only talking won't help. We want big houses to live in but as consequence trees are being cut down. Mother nature is giving her gifts to humans from day one. Cotton, wool, silk....for your fabrics, your fashionable clothes and wood for building house, furniture. Also, plants are destroyed, especially flowers are squeezed to dye you pretty looking stylish clothes, bedsheets, decorative items.... and the list goes on. Chemists came into picture and natural dye was replaced with artificial dye and soon plastic or  polymers replaced wood. Things were still not going well. Plastic was not biodegradable and caused pollution. It started accumulating in oceans on land and as a side effect fishes (also other land animals) were suffering. All because of careless humans. Artificial dye has a lot of chemicals as lot of acids and base goes into its manufacturing process. So, as a solution to ...

  BIOLOGY OF CHOCOLATES AND SOME FACTS😉 HISTORY What?? Cocoa (or cacao) seeds were used as currency??😵 Yes, its true. Back in 450 BC cocoa beans were used as currency because the seeds were very valuable and the " Aztecs believed that cacao seeds were the gift of Quetzalcoatl, the god of wisdom." In 1875, Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate taking liquor and adding powdered milk, developed by Henry Nestle, to it. Today chocolate's consumption is increasing continuously and in 2019 it was expected to reach 7.7 metric tones. Mars Wrigley confectionery is the largest producer of chocolates in the world. Background photo created by freepik - www.freepik.com   BIOLOGY OF CHOCOLATES Chocolates are known to cause lot of bad effects but looking at the benefits you can eat chocolates without feeling guilty about it.  Good fetal development is suggested by a study. If the lady consumes 30 gm chocolate per day during pregnancy fetal development may improve (study presented at t...