Author: Anjali Yennemadi

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Hi, I'm Anjali :) Currently, I'm studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, but I aspire to be a Neuropsychiatrist someday. I absolutely love reading mysteries and romance, and am the biggest fan of The Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who and House M.D.

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lays a small unrewarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” While Douglas Adams penned this line in his ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, he mentioned a pretty insignificant sounding phrase: little blue green planet. Without a doubt, he refers to the Earth. Also Read: Bringing Back Space Culture…

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Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins and minerals. These are the general categories of biomolecules that your body is made up of. One thing that’s common to almost all, if not literally all of these, is a certain element. If you thought of Carbon, think again. There’s another – Oxygen. Each of the biomolecules I mentioned has varying degrees of oxygen in it, whether attached directly or indirectly to the molecule or ion, without which it would not exist. In this context, it is rather obvious that oxygen is super essential to life itself. Did I forget to mention it’s what we…

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