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Collagen

Collagen

(Science: protein) The protein substance of the white fibres (collagenous fibres) of skin, tendon, bone, cartilage and all other connective tissue, composed of molecules of tropocollagen, it is converted into gelatin by boiling. Collagenous pertaining to collagen, forming or producing collagen.

Origin: gr. Kolla = glue, gennan = to produce


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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... animal from an ancestor off the the ark. ( I know that sounds stupid to evolutionists, but it sounds stupid to me when evolutionists say that collagen, blood cells, and heme in a t.rex bone is 68 m years.) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html I said all ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2138

Hydrogen Peroxide

... H2O2 in humans? Could someone specify where these reactions are located (intracellularly or extracellularly)? LOXes work extracellularly on collagen and elastin substrates. But in peroxisomes, there are also H2O2 producing reactions going. Where else? And another question, how easily does ...

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by kk
Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:19 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Hydrogen Peroxide
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Views: 873

-: Basic Cell questions that no one can answer :-

... in wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_type are theses all the types of cells available in any live form ? AAAAANNNNDDD I have read that collagen is the most dominant glycoprotein in the Extracellular matix amoung animal cells. Is that true? And does that apply to EVERY CELL ? Because ...

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by twiiistCH
Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:08 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: -: Basic Cell questions that no one can answer :-
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Views: 850

Re:

... only Metazoa (all multicellular) can be called animals. The definition of an animal is therefore something like "multicellular creature with collagen in its tissues" Therefore, animals indeed do not produce spores (although they do produce sports and... bores) Cheers Dr D

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by DrD
Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:06 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: animals produce spores?!?!
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Views: 1295

Dinosaur Confusion

... by analyzing how rRNA or chaperone sequences diverged. However, in this case that was not possible, so the scientists used the protein at hand - collagen - to analyze changes between various taxonomic groups. This kind of taxonomic method works like this: you analyze six organisms, and at a certain ...

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by MrMistery
Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:59 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Dinosaur Confusion
Replies: 32
Views: 8383
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