Insulin

... Minkowski removed the pancreas from a healthy dog to demonstrate this assumed role in digestion. ... urine. On testing the urine they found that the dog was secreting sugar in its urine, demonstrating ... Banting and Best were able to keep a pancretized dog alive all summer. Their method worked by tying a ...

Animal

... names: alpaca , ant , antelope , badger , bear , bee , beetle , bird , bison , butterfly , cat , coral , chicken , dinosaur , dog , elk , fish , fly , fox , frog , goat , horse , human , jellyfish , lion , lizard , lynx , monkey , octopus , owl , ox , parrot , ...

Charles Darwin

... old man See Darwin from Orchids to Variation and Darwin from Descent of Man to Worms for detail of this period. While illness continued to dog him and his fame grew, Darwin continued his struggle to research and write about problems arising from his theory. Experiments on seedlings and ...

Cladistics

... or species can be described as nested within another. Thus in a cladogram that includes four mammals and a bird, the bird's branch is basal, but a dog would be nested within the mammals. Similarly, a character-state (see below) that seems to be posessed by the common ancestor of a group is described ...

Experimental evolution

... that differ dramatically from their original wild-type ancestors. Examples are the cabbage varieties, maize , or the large number of different dog breeds. The power of human breeding to create varieties with extreme differences from a single species was already recognized by Charles Darwin . ...

Genomics

... Mouse 98% source: Americans for Medical Progress 85% comparing all protein coding sequences, NHGRI dog 95% Jon Entine in the San Francisco Examiner C. elegans 74% Jon Entine in the San Francisco Examiner ...

Konrad Lorenz

... surrounding the planned site. Bibliography (Note: list does not include scientific papers) " King Solomon's Ring " ( 1952 ) "Man Meets dog " ( 1954 ) "Evolution and Modification of Behavior" ( 1965 ) "Behind the Mirror" ( 1966 ) " On Aggression " ( 1966 ) "Civilized Man's Eight ...

Animal

... names: alpaca , ant , antelope , badger , bear , bee , beetle , bird , bison , butterfly , cat , coral , chicken , dinosaur , dog , elk , fish , fly , fox , frog , goat , horse , human , jellyfish , lion , lizard , lynx , monkey , octopus , owl , ox , parrot , ...

Thermoregulation

... that the maximum occurs earlier in the afternoon and the minimum earlier in the morning. Also that the curves obtained from rabbit, guinea pig and dog were quite similar to those from man. The mean temperature of the female was higher than that of the male in all the species examined whose sex had ...