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Initial cell

Initial cell

Actively dividing plant cell in a meristem. at each division one daughter cell remains in the meristem as a new initial cell and the other is added to the growing plant body. Animal equivalent is a stem cell (potentially confusing terminology in plants).


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Cell counting question

I did a cell bio lab recently where we counted fixed cells using a hemocytometer. It was straightforward, ... cells for a control, dilute, and concentrated sample. All of these came from the same initial fixed stock. We also did a differential count for dividing cells using the same samples ...

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by jb0378
Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:11 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell counting question
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... works. Given that the seas where it happened were almost empty of multicellular life, this left open countless niches for an evolving species to ... since without that there is not much left to explain what did the initial DNA coding to produce the seasonally variable sized beaks. Lastly, ...

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by GaryGaulin
Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:53 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... gradual change of most species in the geologic record—from their initial appearance until their extinction—“ now the current thinking notes ... million years ago, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies. Over the following 70 or 80 million ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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by biohazard
Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:43 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
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Second Law of Thermodynamics

... an imput of energy, organisms would tend towards increasing entropy d. cells require a constant input of energy to maintain their high level of ... the potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state. I think the answer is B

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by seders99
Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:57 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Second Law of Thermodynamics
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