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Entity

An independent thing; that which contains in itself all the conditions essential to individuality; that which forms of itself a complete whole; medically, denoting a separate and distinct disease or condition.

Origin: L. Ens (ent-), being, pres. P. Of esse, to be


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Help with biological metaphor?

... feed of each other and depend on each other. However, symbiosis does maybe not quite cut it, because to my knowledge, in a symbiosis the separate entities are feeding off each other, depend on each other (beneficial or otherwise), but they are still separate. They don't build a whole. The accounting ...

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by bebe13
Wed May 15, 2013 8:13 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Help with biological metaphor?
Replies: 7
Views: 326

cell specific markers

... basically single-letter variations in the human DNA sequence. In the past years, several million SNPs have been identified by private and public entities. The SNP Consortium (TSC), representing a group of large pharmaceutical companies and not-for-profit organisations, keeps a public database ...

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by MarkHolland
Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:16 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: cell specific markers
Replies: 3
Views: 980

Are evolution and creationism mutually exclusive???

... sudden emergence of diverse forms at a new level of complexity. The relationships between major groups within an emergent new class of biological entities are hard to decipher and do not seem to fit the tree pattern that, following Darwin's original proposal, remains the dominant description of ...

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by jinx25
Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:21 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Are evolution and creationism mutually exclusive???
Replies: 24
Views: 5720

Re: About viral diseases...

Antibiotics have no effect on viruses. Antibiotics are biologic products obtained from fungus and other biological entities used in the treatment of bacterial diseases. Antibiotics target the cell wall and replicating proteins of the bacteria to destroy (lyse) them.

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by rtom
Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:59 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: About viral diseases...
Replies: 29
Views: 19265

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

This is the form and cogency of you and Dean's argument. Asking questions with invalid presuppositions, does not support realism about fictional entities. seeing you admit genetic cant answer the question as to why/how a virus gets to the DNA in the first place can you just answer the simple question ...

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by jumma
Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 247
Views: 589848
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