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Floating

Floating

1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island.

(Science: medicine) (Macaulay) floating anchor see dock. Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward.

(Science: botany) floating heart, threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.


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Insulin signaling

Does insulin floating in the blood signal to the insulin sensitive tissues like muscle and body fat to prepare to absorb glucose OR is it the Islets of Langerhans that give out the signal directly somhow?

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by rturu
Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:41 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Insulin signaling
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Views: 58

Re: Why do you keep talking about species

... it. Does that mean we now can never divide 3 into 1? What is the point and motivation of your statements about species and phylum? That we are floating directionless in space with no purpose or definition? If you believe in evolution, that is a conclusion you can arrive at. But you are created ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:55 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
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Signaling between the ribosome and synthetase

... there a signaling process between the ribosome and Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase indicating a particular need? Or are all varieties of aminoacyl-tRNA floating in the cytoplasm and available for the ribosomes? I hope this is phrased correctly.

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by moadeeb
Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:30 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Signaling between the ribosome and synthetase
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Views: 210

Alternative Theories to Evolution

... material available that our current organisms use - water,co2,o2 etc. Even if it did survive that, it would either burn up or fall off and begin floating down our atmosphere(which would take a long long time) only to be burnt up by out UV rays. I don't see how its possible for spores etc to go ...

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by futurezoologist
Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:50 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Alternative Theories to Evolution
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Views: 397

Plate tectonic activity ideas

... motors/rolling bands moving in opposite direction [magama convection cells of course] and cover with liquid (as thick as possible) [magma] put floating pieces of styrofoam on the surface [the plaques] of the liquid and look at the plaques collide, slide or whatever will happen. Good luck with ...

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by canalon
Wed May 06, 2009 3:10 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Plate tectonic activity ideas
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