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Homogeneous

Homogeneous

Consisting of or composed of similar elements or ingredients, of a uniform quality throughout.

Origin: gr. Genos = kind


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Play Sports and pursue a Career or go Extinct! Here's why..

... There is always someone closely behind and above you. And even though our social circle isn’t bigger than it used to be, it has become much more homogeneous. The schooling system, the housing arrangements and our work floor have sorted us along the lines of our abilities. In response to the close ...

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by adriaanb
Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:30 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Play Sports and pursue a Career or go Extinct! Here's why..
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Re: question about skin cells elaboration

... but you can’t do that sort of thing (yet) with an organ like the liver or kidney. Skin cells (well, specifically fibroblasts) are a reasonably homogeneous population of cells compared to “liver” or “kidney” cells. Part of the normal function of fibroblasts is to cover damaged tissue, so, because ...

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by blcr11
Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:12 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: question about skin cells elaboration
Replies: 1
Views: 647

Staphyltect test mechanism

... in groups by the antibodies and you got visible clamps. But if you have other bacteria, nobody gets attached and the negative result is a simple homogeneous looking bacterial suspension. I hope this helps.

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by canalon
Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:47 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Staphyltect test mechanism
Replies: 2
Views: 928

CELLULAR POOL

How much detail? Thermodyamic phases are things like “solid, liquid, gas…” These are the types of homogeneous states in which a substance can be found. An aqueous phase usually means a water-soluble form (usually either solid or liquid), and a non-aqueous phase (again, usually ...

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by blcr11
Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:53 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: CELLULAR POOL
Replies: 3
Views: 1007

biodiversity

... zones. Basically there are two ways to have high species diversity....high speciation rate or low extinction rate. The bottom of the sea is pretty homogeneous so I'd rule out high speciation rate in favor of the low extinction rate hypthosesis. I read of a recent study that suggested, for terrestial ...

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by CoffeaRobusta
Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:33 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: biodiversity
Replies: 9
Views: 2455
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