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Dictionary » A » Analogy AnalogyDefinition noun (evolutionary biology) Structural or behavioural similarity in terms of functions between unrelated species or organisms but do not share a common ancestral or developmental origin
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Results from our forumBAP, brassinolide, triacontanol, Amino, kelp foliar question... look like a fool. Of course no one will look like a fool buying and using high purity Triacontanol for growing plants. What mentioned is just an analogy of what I am trying to say. May or may not be an accurate analogy but sometimes it is easier to illustrate an abstract idea by analogy with ...
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Chemiosmosis... much the same aim, i.e. production of energy by ATPase. One can thing about it as being flipped (inside-out) in comparison to mitochondria or as analogy with cristae being stroma. One more thing that came to my mind. RuBISCO is activated by increase of Mg2+ concentration. I'm not sure how this ...
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Protein structureHere an analogy to help you understand: Take your name signature (cursive) for both last and first name. First level: straighten the signature and you get two lines, which would be the polypeptide (peptide chain). Second level: ...
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Synthetitic genetic screening in yeast... car. So, if you were to lose the key, you can still get into a car but not drive it (let's call it a different phenotype). Let's for purposes of analogy also equate being unable to access the car with lethal phenotype (as car is useless). Now, in this situation you need to lose BOTH key and alarm ...
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life... 6? I’ve tried to make this point several times… ...I'm quite sure I was talking about something completely different, specifically mutations. The analogy is meant to show that if there is a small chance of something, then you can be very certain of getting lucky if you try enough times. You can ...
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