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potentially

1. With power; potently.

2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. (Bentley)


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is mosquito saliva hypotonic to plasma? HIV concern?

... If the mosquito had just fed on an HIV positive individual, and then gotten into my eye (which is a documented method of transmission), could I potentially be infected? I know that human saliva is hypotonic to plasma, which effectively prevents any transmission of HIV. I'm just wondering if ...

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by blacrooy
Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:38 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: is mosquito saliva hypotonic to plasma? HIV concern?
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cell specific markers

... situations in which one population has a certain allele while the other does not. Hence, a significant part of the aggressor’s population would be potentially vulnerable. In addition, the P450 system comprises many dozens of enzymes with overlapping activities. Targeting a chemical or biological ...

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by MarkHolland
Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:16 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: cell specific markers
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Views: 920

Re: mutations and dependencies

the lack of evidence for something=evidence for it Nobody could say that, since it's nonsense. One mutation could (potentially) kill you, but dozens of others do not. Moreover, our genome is optimized after milions of years of evolution. How much more would you like to optimize ...

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by JackBean
Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:59 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: mutations and dependencies
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Views: 4476

Re: world population

This seems an almost impossible question to answer as I do not know what food production could potentially increase to in the future and there are many limiting factors which would prevent a huge number of people surviving including space to build houses , food , drink ...

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by Drredfrizzle
Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:36 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: world population
Replies: 3
Views: 827

Life span of DNA

... to the DNA molecule and can alter or eliminate the cell's ability to transcribe the gene that the affected DNA encodes. Other lesions induce potentially harmful mutations in the cell's genome, which affect the survival of its daughter cells after it undergoes mitosis. As a consequence, the ...

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by suzidoc8
Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:35 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Life span of DNA
Replies: 2
Views: 2630
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