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Extension

1. (Science: orthopaedics) The movement by which the two elements of any jointed part are drawn away from each other.

2. (Science: anatomy) a movement which brings the members of a limb into or toward a straight relation.

Origin: L. Extensio


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Cell wall extension- shearing units??

... units . Any help would be greatly appreciated (even if past the deadline, i would still like to know). Here's the section of text; "Wall extension commonly exhibits a yield threshold stress, below which walls do not extend. Although its molecular nature is not well understood, one way ...

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by MelJayne
Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:37 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell wall extension- shearing units??
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Re: creationists on this forum

... wrong. They believe this for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is childhood indoctrination into their beliefs. Once indoctrinated, the extension of rational thought from everyday life to the big questions is difficult and often impossible for them. Some just like being pests, some think ...

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by wbla3335
Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:08 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: creationists on this forum
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Re: Android app for Pairwise Protein Alignment

... the app automatically fetches the protein sequence from the database and aligns them. Other features of the app: Gap penalties: Open, Affine and Extension penalties Substitution matrices: Blosum60, PAM250, Gonnet250, etc

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by deeptakverma
Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:50 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Android app for Pairwise Protein Alignment
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Real Time reverse transcription PCR Questions

... not match the DNA template strand. If the restriction site does not match with the template does that part just not bind and it floats during the extension round? Does the following look correct? 5' CCTCCATGAGATCCATATGGAG 3' = 5' TCGXXXXXXCCTCCATGAGATCCATATGGAG 3' X= Restriction Site, TCG= extra ...

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by wessH
Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:21 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Real Time reverse transcription PCR Questions
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Views: 1490

Phosphate bioavailability in soil

Sulfur amendment is not "organic'" and arguable not green. Here's how one would perform the operation. http://www.extension.org/pages/13046/raising-soil-ph-and-soil-acidification Lowering pH may or may not help - Bruce, do you have any idea what the pH is now? Why do you think ...

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by JorgeLobo
Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:28 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Phosphate bioavailability in soil
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