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Horizontal cell

Horizontal cell

a type of nonspiking interneuron found in the retina, named for its morphology. Horizontal cells process the information from a large number of photoreceptors and synapse onto ganglion cells and other cell types in the retina.


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... Wbla3335 suggested others. . well you gave me the example of sickle cell....first of all, this is not a controlled experiment which verifies ... goes, it's the same thing. First of all, most resistance involves horizontal gene transfer, not mutations. Also, in order to prove darwinism, ...

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by supersport
Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:23 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Microevolution is a fairytale
Replies: 23
Views: 2896

Re: lateral movement of proteins in lipid bilayer

... a plane but is a bag, with a more-or-less spherical shape (though for a cell with extensive long parts extending from the central cell, such as a ... membrane" makes some sense. If you picture the cell membrane as a horizontal plane, the transmembrane protein can move forward or back, left ...

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by jonmoulton
Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:22 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: lateral movement of proteins in lipid bilayer
Replies: 4
Views: 1367

Re: Mitosis and Meiosis

... don't think that's the case. By looking at the structure, I can see cell lines(as in lines made out of cells on top of each other, not stabilized ... way, with longitudinal divisions taking place much more frequently than horizontal ones. In fact, I even remember reading that somewhere(don't remember ...

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by MrMistery
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:32 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Mitosis and Meiosis
Replies: 19
Views: 3219

Evolution - Natural Selection FLAWED?

... on tree trunks, and all other types preferred to rest beneath small, horizontal branches. Since 1980 it has become clear that peppered moths do ... taking place in the DNA molecule, which is found in the nuclei of the cells of a living organism and which contains all its genetic information. ...

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by Thermopylae
Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:52 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution - Natural Selection FLAWED?
Replies: 9
Views: 4038

Butterfly

I've been going over this a lot and I can see where the horizontal gene transfer could account for a butterfly possibly having an egg ... come up with is that the DNA for metamorphosis was formed when the first cell was formed. Does any one know if that DNA code for metamorphosis has been ...

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by burninbriar
Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:13 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Butterfly
Replies: 23
Views: 4747
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