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Simplified Biology - New Blog

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:32:00 +0000

Hey guys! Check out this new blog about BIOLOGY called Simplified Biology by Mrs. Ramneet kaur. The blog is great according to me and you also must check it out. She is posting biweekly topic reviews in which a big topic is concised in very easy and understandable form so, that you can revise easily.

She is a very experienced teacher with about 3o years of experience. According to her, she wants benefit the students by giving them easy review, mnemonics and weekly MCQs through this blog.

Here are some important topics covered by here:

Translation(protein synthesis)

Types of RNA

Mutation

Kreb's Cycle/TCA cycle

Electron Transport Chain(ETC)

DNA Structure

DNA Replication

Pedigree Analysis

Plant Nutrition

Genetics

Mnemonics

Guys, Do Check out here blog @ www.ramneetkaur.com. If You like it subscribe by clicking the link below and filling in your details. Do remember to confirm in your mailbox( also check your spam or junk mail if you didn't receive the confirmation link).

Also Checkout her facebook group were you can solve all your biology doubts.

Facebook Group

Thank You people!

Mnemonic-Argyll Robertson Pupil

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

ARP- Accommodation Reflex Present
So, Puppilary Reflex is absent

I'm Back

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:55:00 +0000

Ahhh...After a long time.After cleaning up the mess in my life. I finally having time for blogging....

N yeah it's good to be back(Iron Man style)

So, i want to share an audio with you all, especially will those medical students who are frustrated in life like me and also for the non medicos. It is an inspiring lecture by the great, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty. I'm sure it will inspire you, motivate you and most importantly encourage you to not loose hope in life. He gave this inspiring lecture to the passing out students on the day of convocation in SDM College, Dharwad.

PS. You can't miss this people.

Mnemonic-Allergic Conjunctivitis

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:31:00 +0000

Some Very Aggressive Girls Prevent Cuteness during Allergic Conjunctivitis

Simple allergic conjunctivitis

Vernal

Atopic

Giant papillary type

Phlyctenular

Contact dermatoconjunctivitis

Mnemonic- Opiods: mu receptor effects

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:15:00 +0000

MD CARES

Miosis
Dependency
Constipation
Analgesics
Respiratory depression
Euphoria
Sedation

Mnemonic-Muscarinic effects

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:54:00 +0000

SLUG BAM

Salivation/ Secretions/ Sweating
Lacrimation
Urination
Gastrointestinal upset
Bradycardia/ Bronchoconstriction/ Bowel movement
Abdominal cramps/ Anorexia
Miosis

Mnemonic-Teratogenic drugs

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:52:00 +0000

TAP CAP

Thalidomide
Androgens
Progestins
Corticosteroids
Aspirin & indomethacin
Phenytoin

Mnemonic-Steroid side effects

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:48:00 +0000

CUSHINGOID

Cataracts
Ulcers
Skin: striae, thinning, bruising
Hypertension/ Hirsutism/ Hyperglycemia
Infections
Necrosis, avascular necrosis of the femoral head
Glycosuria
Osteoporosis, obesity
Immunosuppression
Diabetes

Mnemonic-Pulmonary infiltrations inducing drugs

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:40:00 +0000

Go BAN Me

Gold
Bleomycin/ Busulphan/ BCNU
Amiodarone/ Acyclovir/ Azathioprine
Nitrofurantoin
Melphalan/ Methotrexate/ Methysergide

Amritsar Journal - A Sikh Temple Where All May Eat, and Pitch In - NYTimes

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:32:00 +0000

I found a very great article that i would like to share about "Golden Temple" on NZY times.

The groaning, clattering machines never stop, transforming 12 tons of whole wheat flour every day into nearly a quarter-million discs of flatbread called roti. These purpose-built contraptions, each 20 feet long, extrude the dough, roll it flat, then send it down a gas-fired conveyor belt, spitting out a never-ending stream of hot, floppy, perfectly round bread.

Soupy lentils, three and a third tons of them, bubble away in vast cauldrons, stirred by bearded, barefoot men wielding wooden spoons the size of canoe paddles. The pungent, savory bite wafting through the air comes from 1,700 pounds of onions and 132 pounds of garlic, sprinkled with 330 pounds of fiery red chilies.

It is lunchtime at what may be the world’s largest free eatery, the langar, or community kitchen at this city’s glimmering Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion. Everything is ready for the big rush. Thousands of volunteers have scrubbed the floors, chopped onions, shelled peas and peeled garlic. At least 40,000 metal plates, bowls and spoons have been washed, stacked and are ready to go.

Anyone can eat for free here, and many, many people do. On a weekday, about 80,000 come. On weekends, almost twice as many people visit. Each visitor gets a wholesomevegetarian meal, served by volunteers who embody India’s religious and ethnic mosaic.

“This is our tradition,” said Harpinder Singh, the 45-year-old manager of this huge operation. “Anyone who wants can come and eat.”

India is not only the world’s largest democracy, it also is one of the most spiritually diverse nations. It was born in a horrific spasm of religious bloodshed when British India was torn in two to create a Muslim homeland in Pakistan. Yet from the moment of its independence, India has been a resolutely secular nation and has managed to accommodate an extraordinary range of views on such fundamental questions as the nature of humanity, the existence of God and the quality of the soul.

Indeed, few places in India demonstrate so clearly the country’s genius for diversity and tolerance, the twin reasons that India — despite its fractures and fissures — has remained one nation.

Sikhism, which emerged in the Punjab region of India in the 15th century, strongly rejects the notion of caste, which lies at the core of Hinduism.

The Golden Temple, a giant complex of marble and glittering gold that sits at the heart of this sprawling, hectic city near the border with Pakistan, seeks to embody this principle. Nowhere is it more evident than in the community kitchen, where everyone, no matter his religion, wealth or social status, is considered equal.

Guru Amar Das created the community kitchen during his time as the third Sikh guru in the 16th century. Its purpose, he said, was to place all of humanity on the same plane. At the temple’s museum, one painting shows the wife of one of the gurus serving common people, “working day and night in the kitchen like an ordinary worker,” the caption says.

Volunteerism and community support are other central tenets of Sikhism expressed in the langar. When the Mughal emperor Akbar tried to give Guru Amar Das a platter of gold coins to support the kitchen, he refused to accept them, saying the kitchen “is always run with the blessings of the Almighty.”

Ashok Kumar, a Hindu with a scraggly beard, has been coming to the kitchen for the past five years — all day, almost every day — to work as a volunteer. “It is my service,” he explained, after reluctantly taking a very brief break from his syncopated tray sorting.

A white rag covered his head, and his hands were bound like a boxer’s. His job is to man the heavy bucket that receives the dirty plates and bowls. He is the last man on a highly organized line that begins with collecting the spoons, dumping out any leftover food, then loading giant tubs of dirty dishes bound for the washing troughs.

Plates and bowls fly at him, but he never misses a beat, using a metal plate in each hand to deflect the traffic into the tub. Plates go around the rim, while bowls get stacked in the middle.

Mr. Kumar used to be a bookbinder.“I feel happy here,” he said when asked why he had given up his old life.

Indians of all faiths come here to find a measure of peace largely unavailable in the cacophony of the nation’s 1.2 billion people. Like the thousands of pairs of shoes left at the temple gates, the chaos and filth of urban life are left behind at the marble entrances.

The temple is a world of cleanliness and order — where the wail of the harmonium and the shuffling of bare feet are the only sounds, and every square inch is scrubbed many times a day.

It has not always been a peaceful place. A Sikh insurgency, which sought a separate homeland for Sikhs in Punjab, tore at India’s heart in the 1970s and ’80s. In 1984, Indira Gandhi, then the prime minister, ordered a bloody raid on the temple. Hundreds of militants were hiding there, and many were killed. The temple was also damaged. Sikh bodyguards later assassinated Mrs. Gandhi to avenge the attack on the temple.

Despite this history, Sikhs remain resolutely a part of India’s mainstream, holding leading positions in the arts, government and business. India’s current prime minister, Manmohan Singh, is a Sikh.

Pankaj Ahuja, who owns a medical supply shop in Rajasthan, was visiting the temple for the third time, this time bringing his wife and son, who had never been before. They took the Golden Temple Express train, and were sleeping in the pilgrims’ dormitories, which are also free. The family is Hindu, but the temple has a special significance for them nonetheless.

“You have lots of religious places in this country,” said Mr. Ahuja’s wife, Nikita. “But the kind of peace and cleanliness you find here you won’t find anywhere else.”

Back home, cleaning floors would be considered degrading for someone of her status — people of low caste usually do such work. But here, Mrs. Ahuja happily scrubs floors.

“In normal life, I would ask, ‘Why should I do this?’ It is shameful to clean floors,” she said. “But here, it is different.”

Indeed, she never gives a moment’s thought to who prepared the food in the kitchen, even though in India’s highly stratified caste traditions such matters are vital.

“It is more than food,” she said of the meals that she had eaten at the community kitchen. “Once you eat it, you forget who is cooking, who is serving it, who is sitting next to you.”

Anil Kumar, a 32-year-old Hindu, was up to his elbows in soapy water at one of the washing troughs.

“At home, I would never do this,” he said with a laugh. “It is my wife’s work.”

But he said he tried to come for at least an hour every day to wash dishes. “It is not a question of religion,” he added. “It is a question of faith. Here I feel a feeling of peace.”

Source: NY times(www.nytimes.com)
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/world/asia/30india.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=amritsar&st=cse&scp=1

Mnemonic-Obligate anaerobes

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:16:00 +0000

ABC:

Actinomyces
Bacteroides
Clostridium

Mnemonic-Common cold: viral causes

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:08:00 +0000

PRIMA

Paramyxoviruses
Rhinoviruses
Influenza viruses
Myxoviruses
Adenoviruses

IInd Year Mnemonics

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:04:00 +0000

Hey guys,now i am starting to put up IInd year's mnemonics from today.I am going to be a little inconsistent so, please bear with me.

Never Too late

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:30:00 +0000

Life's becoming a mess.How will i make it??What should i study??What should i study??....That are probably the questions coming in your mind before you face the exams that will decide the fate of your life. The day the results come,it may be the most historic day in your life or may be the worst day. But its all upto you,its all up there. You need to decide what will be your fate. You will need to ask yourself some questions,"Do i deserve getting a seat?","Is it worth wasting my time on petty things when i can change my life forever?" and "Where do i stand in the competition?".

I know most of you will be disheartened at the answers and some not.And there will be 4 categories of people.One,who will underestimate themselves,the underconfidents.Second,who will overestimate,the overconfidents.Third,who will not know the answers.Fourth,they will be the confident ones.Whatever category you fall in doesn't decide the fate.The destiny is one you will shape now. 90% people who will get selected in these exams are at the same platform right now.So,there is nothing to worry.Its all about your grit,your determination and your hunger.

Its not what you have done that decides your destiny but what you will do will decide.You have to sit down on your study table and tell yourself that i have to change my life and not loose hope.Leave aside whatever you have done or what you have not done,just give your last shot, irrespective of what result may come.You have to stand strong and may what come you will devote most of your weeks,days,hours,minutes and seconds to the books which will script.

For all those people who are confused what to study.For boards or entrance? Remember the course is same but you have to devote 1-2 hours everyday to MCQs and study theory rest of the time.Rest,that is also very important.But choosing the way you rest is also important.Choose wisely and judiously.Don't choose anything that will divert or occupy your mind even after your rest time.

And after your boards revise and revise,practice a lot of MCQs.Especially,the previous papers first and practice papers later continiuosly without break.

WORK HARD!!FOCUS!!n acheive all your dreams....n remember its NEVER TOO LATE

All The Best!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:02:00 +0000

Mnemonic-Porphyrias

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:38:00 +0000

Aeyy! Please Help Varun Buy Car Polo

Hepatic
Acute intermittent porphyria
Porphyria cutnae tarda
Hereditary coproporphyria
Variegate porphyria

Erythropoietic
Cogenital erythropoietic porphyria
Protoporphyria

Mnemonic-Enzymes: classification

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:20:00 +0000

Over The HILL

Oxidoreductases

Transferases

Hydrolases

Isomerases

Ligases

Lyases

Mnemonic-Citric acid cycle

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:19:00 +0000

Oh Citric Acid Is Of(course) A Silly Stupid Funny Molecule

Oxaloacetate

Citrate

Cis-Aconitase

Isocitrate

Oxalosuccinate

Alpha Ketogluterate

Succinyl CoA

Succinate

Fumerate

Malate

Mnemonic-Fat soluble Vitamins

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:13:00 +0000

ADEK

Vitamin A

Vitamin D

Vitamin E

Vitamin K

Mnemonic-Vitamin B3 (niacin, nicotinic acid) deficiency: pellagra

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:11:00 +0000

The 3 D's of pellagra:

Dermatitis

Diarrhea

Dementia

Mnemonic-Glycolysis

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:10:00 +0000

"Goodness Gracious, Father Franklin Did Go By Picking Pumpkins (to) Prepare Pies"

Glucose

Glucose-6-P

Fructose-6-P

Fructose-1,6-diP

Dihydroxyacetone-P

Glyceraldehyde-P

1,3-Biphosphoglycerate

3-Phosphoglycerate

2-Phosphoglycerate (to)

Phosphoenolpyruvate [PEP]

Pyruvate

Mnemonic-Glycogen storage: Anderson's (IV) vs. Cori's (III) enzyme defect

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:05:00 +0000

ABCD

Anderson's=Branching enzyme.

Cori's=Debranching enzyme

Mnemonic-Essential amino acids

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:04:00 +0000

PVT. TIM HALL

Phe

Val

Thr

Trp

Ile

Met

His

Arg

Lue

Lys

Mnemonic-Osteoblast vs. osteoclast

noreply@blogger.com (IMDOC) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:31:00 +0000

OsteoBlast Builds bone.

OsteoClast Consumes bone.

Mnemonic-Prolactin and oxytocin: functions