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Is there a reason why human eyesight and plants make use of the same wavelength of light?

human-biology botany photosynthesis vision eyes asked Jan 5 '12 at 20:18
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Why is uracil used in RNA rather than thymine?

biochemistry dna rna asked Dec 16 '11 at 20:57
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Stack Exchange still uses Wikipedia's Citation Needed text

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How did this circular duplicate come about?

bug exact-duplicates meta asked Feb 27 at 22:54
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Is there any advantage to one blood type over another?

human-biology hematology asked Jan 18 '12 at 22:10
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Include 101 rep users (i.e. those with the association bonus) in first questions/first answers within the review page

feature-request status-completed review new-users asked Apr 5 '12 at 10:17
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Why would diffusion be faster across a non-specialised tissue?

human-biology pharmacology human-anatomy aspirin asked Dec 27 '11 at 14:40
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Government came and took my baby!

sims-2 asked Aug 11 '12 at 19:54
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Does the X questions with new activity feature have to change the page title?

feature-request notifications global-inbox live-refresh asked Mar 9 '12 at 23:08
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12 votes

What causes REM atonia to be lost in sleepwalking?

human-biology neuroscience sleep asked Jan 2 '12 at 12:50
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Is it possible to remove the Careers banner with the dying starfish?
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Does UNICEF use less than 14% of the donated money for the advertised causes?
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Why do Humans not produce Vitamin C like other mammals?
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Why Does Salt Water Help Sore Throats?
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Why would stablising selection ever happen?
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Anomalous non-award of a class badge
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What is up with lighter/washed out text?
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Why does this URL have “?as=1” at the end of it?
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How does laughing gas (N2O) work?
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My flag declined but question closed by other moderators
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Why do plants have green leaves and not red?
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What is the most heat-tolerant organism?
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Is negative one plural?
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Stack Overflow question formatting guidelines? Bold/Italics?
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What's the maximum and minimum temperature a human can survive?
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Moderator declined an altogether wrong answer
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Online repositories of scanning electron microscope photographs?
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How does laser surgery correct accommodation problems?
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How does the immune system “learn” from a vaccine?
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Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be?
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Why can cones detect color but rods can't?
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Does testosterone increase female sexual behavior?
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Privilege disappear?
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Is there a difference in the impact of an upvote on a question, when the upvote comes from an answerer?
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Is “Too old to migrate” a good reason NOT to migrate?
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Do plants produce any heat?
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Why did the process of sleep evolve in many animals? What is its evolutionary advantage?
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What part of food gives the blood red color?
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Is it ok to copy code from an answer on one SE site to an answer on another SE site?
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Is there any advantage to one blood type over another?
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