Goat farming in Bangladesh is primarily centred on indigenous Black Bengal goat, a highly prolific breed. Searching for genetic markers associated with prolificacy this breed vital the country’s goat breeding industry. However, there are no reports polymorphisms fertility of Bangladeshi goats. This study investigated two major fecundity genes-bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth dif...

Serum samples from 20 out of 180 (11.1%) apparently healthy Nigerian indigenous chickens were negative for antibodies against chicken anaemia virus using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Of the 160 positive sera (88.9%), 12 (7.5%) had titres ranging from 1500-3000, 46 (28.8%) had titres from 3000-5000 while 102 (63.8%) had titres between 5000-11000. The overall mean titre value wa...

Skin can no more be viewed as specialized wrapping material but more extensively as a complex organ actively communicating with the external world. Two groups were studied in the present investigation, one in peak summer and the other in peak winter, respectively. In lipid histochemistry, the super cial layer of epidermis of both summer and winter comprising stratum corneum and stratum lucidum...

Plants play important role in the cycle of nature. This is because life on earth basically depends on them. Plants provide man with all his needs as regards food, shelter, clothing, flavours and fragrance as well as medicine. They are naturally occurring substances that produce almost all the foods that animals as well as humans eat. They have unique potential to make their own food through pho...

This paper attempts to review the effects of language diversities in learning biology, restricted its boundaries Nigeria’s ethnic languages, research objectives such as investigating blend a typical Nigerian biology classroom, ascertaining pupils' preferences for their preferred teaching, assessing disparity between academic performance when English compared Indigenous languages. The reviewed s...