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... involves a covalent modification of the DNA and/or the DNA-bound histone proteins without changing the DNA sequence of the gene itself. Since its initial discovery and study in maize in the 1950s, paramutation has been observed in other organisms, including tomatoes, peas, and mice.

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... straightforward, but I got some wacky results. We counted 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 My weird results showed up between my control and my ...

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... to conclude that there are some things about intelligent beings that are universal… Evolution gets you to the same destination regardless of the initial conditions and parameters. Just as mathematics is universal in all places in the universe, so to would be the behaviors of intelligent beings. ...

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GaryGaulin, I did not (at least I hope) call you a religious nutter or with any other names. All I posted considered your initial post and your claim that a top scientist needs to be religious. Also, I mentioned that religion is like a contageous disease, because it gets passed on from ...

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... I got married four years ago and the change of lifestyle was a build up to a grand mal seizure. I have been on medication since. From the initial seizure i developed a number of health problems including S.V.T attacks, Non epileptic type seizures, reoccouring infections, artheritis, constant ...

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