Blogs by the students of Bio-movies at Habib University

  The literal meaning of dominance is to have power and influence over others, in nature it refers to the hierarchy of species competing for survival. The concept of dominance is most prominent in social species such as humans and apes. Often associated with dominant behavior, is aggressive behavior. Why is that exactly? Imagine you’re the ruler of a great kingdom, it’s prospering in your reign while you enjoy the benefits of being at the top of the ladder however, all of a sudden, you hear of invaders who seek YOUR crown, YOUR throne, YOUR kingdom…that changes things doesn’t it. Your position is immediately challenged, the lives of your people may as well be at stake and the enemy doesn’t seem particularly friendly. There are mainly two possible outcomes: 1.       You defeat the opposition and win. 2.       Everything you built is destroyed, your people suffer and you most likely meet an agonizing, painful death. Either way, there can only be ONE victor that emerges from the ashes. Th

    WHAT IF YOU COULD BECOME INVISIBLE? What if we could become invisible? We can do anything we want without any consequences. Even if they do find who it was, how are they going to catch us? Will they run around the city till they somehow crash into us and catch us, which seems rather time-consuming or impossible, right? But what if we become invisible one day, all the things we could do, we can be a superhero or a criminal mastermind, or at least that is what people would say. Other than that there is still an issue you won’t be able to interact with people or talk to anyone because who would want to talk to someone that they can’t even see? But what if there was a way to become visible again, as shown in The Hollow Man how they reversed the gorilla back to being visible but wasn’t that painful? Can you really endure all that pain just to become visible again? Even the scientist in the movie couldn’t endure all that pain and was about to die.                                        

  Zombies: Science Vs. Fiction      For the past few decades, we have seen Hollywood portray zombies to be these undead flesh-eating creatures lacking free will and attacking anything to eat, kill and infect. There are many theories about how zombies came to be but in earlier works we learn that zombies were corpses said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions, find out more about the history in this journal article by Isak Niehaus; Witches and Zombies of the South African Lowveld: Discourse, Accusations and Subjective Reality . In this blog we will find out whether Zombies exist in real life or not and what the science is behind the living dead. Source: Gif Abyss      In the movie World War Z, we see a former U.N investigator Gerry Lane embark on a daunting journey to keep his family protected and find the source of the infection and a cure or way to stop it’s spread. In the movie, we are unable to learn of the exact origin of the virus.

    October 30, 2022 By: Eraj Zehra   De-extinction, sounds fascinating, many scientists have already plotted some scientific methods and are on the verge to resurrect the species that went extinct in past few years. Some of the scientific ways of de-extinction that are adopted by the scientists are cloning, back-breeding and genetic engineering.                                                                                    Picture 1: Methods of de-extinction     Has there been a successful de-extinction? Yes, resurrection of Pyrenean ibex through cloning is the first successful de-extinction in the history, but the question arises that how it actually happened. One of the scientists Dr. Alberto Fernandez Arias injected a nucleus from Celia’s (last ever bucardo) preserved cells to goat eggs that were emptied of their own DNA. These eggs were further inserted into hybrids between Spanish ibex and domestic goats however, only 7 animals out of 57 were able to r