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Conservative

to preserve) designed to preserve health, restore function and repair structures by nonradical methods, as conservative surgery.

Origin: L. Conservare


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Re: Any other explanations other than Mutation?

... time how neatly evolution and natural selection work :o As a side note, does anyone know what is Islam's view of evolution? Do they have similar conservative sects that close their eyes from the evidence and blindly hold on to their age-old beliefs? Man, it's hard to believe that even today certain ...

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by biohazard
Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:12 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any other explanations other than Mutation?
Replies: 6
Views: 1741

Re: Conservative region of a gene

I can speculate on several reasons why knowing whether a SNP is in a conserved region could be useful. First, conserved regions are likely to encode a useful functional motif of a protein. Evolutionary theory suggests that conserved regions vary less because their sequence is selected for by natural...

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by jonmoulton
Mon May 04, 2009 3:06 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Conservative region of a gene
Replies: 2
Views: 584

Conservative region of a gene

Hi! I was asked to see if some of the SNP that I've identified in a portion of a gene are in conservative regions or not. I am using USCS browser to do it, but I don't know what can I conclude from it. I mean is it more or less relevant that a SNP is located in a conservative ...

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by Cscientist
Mon May 04, 2009 1:39 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Conservative region of a gene
Replies: 2
Views: 584

Natural selection is proven wrong

... a college student myself, I'll grant you that some professors are militantly liberal, but let's be fair. At least as many have just as strong of a conservative bias, so overall I'd have to say the perspective among collegiate educators is pretty balanced. As for the media, I would rate their bias ...

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by alextemplet
Sun May 03, 2009 7:59 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16360

Bible vs Darwin

... be a topic of discussion in the scientific community, if only to raise awareness of the problem and help stop the persistent efforts of certain conservative factions to force ID to be taught in schools as if it were genuine science.

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by alextemplet
Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
Replies: 293
Views: 30227
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