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... molecular level, even when there are no reason for those (say the correspondance between codons and amino-acids) it is usually supposed that all current living organisms came from a unique source. This is implicit when you hear about LUCA (Last Unknown Common Ancestor).

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... course I'm taking is focusing on experimental techniques and I'm really lost. Is there an online resource or recent textbook that focuses on the current biology experimental techniques? Obviously, stuff on blots, but the more advanced stuff too on using fluorescence and radioactive labeling, ...

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... thawn after decades, and probably after a nearly limitless amount of time if storen properly (e.g. in liquid nitrogen or colder). However, currently there are no means to cryogenically store bigger animals, not to mention warm-blooded mammals such as humans. Uneven distribution of cryopreservants, ...

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... term is coined by Stephen Jay Gould. “An exaptation is a feature that performs a function but that was not produced by natural selection for its current use. Perhaps the feature was produced by natural selection for a function other than the one it currently performs and was then co-opted for ...

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... maybe that it is too thick to fit into a western transfer machine), but I think you would have a very hard time figuring out the right parameters (current, voltage, time) at which to transfer it.

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