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Elaboration

Elaboration

1. The act or process of producing or refining with labour; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

2. (Science: physiology) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

Origin: L. Elaboratio: cf. F. Elaboration.


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Nuclear protein purification

Thank you for the elaboration, I know its been almost a month for me to reply I am sorry for that but I finally tried the experiment and the volume I am adding to is 5 ml. But I am not sure how we reached the 2/3 ratio of the original ...

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by bravebeaker
Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:58 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Nuclear protein purification
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Re: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy

... to turn this change into information so that the degradation of a system not only contains the seed of its own renewal but at a higher level of elaboration with more energy now available to it." Maybe, this also belongs on the Astronomy section because I'm sure they have something to say ...

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by Promethean
Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:19 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy
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Gene Control

hi all What is Gene Control is Gene Control different from Gene expression. i need more elaboration on this Subject please

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by Ukochukwue
Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:24 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Gene Control
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Re: Evolution of sexual reproduction

... and biggest tail feathers around at the time. His genes were therefore, passed on more readily and frequently than those peacocks with less elaboration and length of tail. In the next generation the same thing happened, until it became so elaborate and long that it was almost a disability ...

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by butterfly1
Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution of sexual reproduction
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Re: Denaturation of enzymes

So in response to what poison wrote, I need a little more elaboration upon the denaturation and renaturation. You said that most proteins don't reform their natural shape. Could this be due to the fact that you need chaperones and other such helpers to ...

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by carmenh
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:21 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Denaturation of enzymes
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