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Little finger

Little finger

(Science: anatomy) The little or fifth finger.

Synonym: digitus minimus, digitus quintus, digitus auricularis, fifth finger.


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Sequence allignment questions

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Zinc-finger-seq-alignment2.png ':' means Conservative amino acids. As we know it's the replacement of an amino acid residue with another one with similar properties, so why do the amino acids with the ...

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by TToe
Fri Nov 23, 2012 3:51 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Sequence allignment questions
Replies: 6
Views: 851

Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it

I am so glad to finally find out this is normal. As a little kid ( 14 years old now) I would love it when the teacher would read us ... often fall asleep listening to her turn the pages, the way her thumb and finger rub against it and the friction of the fingers makes a sound as the page ...

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by Ayyce
Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:31 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Replies: 81
Views: 78634

Re: how to know a muscle is contracting or relaxing

... eye muscles are working to focus and moving across your screen and your finger muscles are operating to strike the keyboard. All thes little actions require contractions and relaxations of opposing pairs or groups of muscles ...

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by Wallyanna
Wed May 09, 2012 10:07 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how to know a muscle is contracting or relaxing
Replies: 2
Views: 907

DNA question help

right restriction enzyme will not cut the DNA and there will be not unique bands appear on gel.. so no DNA finger prints...

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by ayubian20
Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:02 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: DNA question help
Replies: 3
Views: 661

Re: 6 fingers

... is not an inherited, dominant mutation. Apparently, sometimes extra skin, with or without a nail, just forms on the hands and feet resembling a finger or toe and the doctors remove it at birth for cosmetic purposes. People who have Polydactyly have muscle and nerve function in the sixth digit ...

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by HelpPleaseThankYou
Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:16 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: 6 fingers
Replies: 3
Views: 1723
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