Proximate cause

when I read the questions, I remembered about my professor's words. It's related with proximate and ultimate factors :lol: we can see the cat's behavior like that because it's suited with their physiological adaptation to the environment (proximate factor). And also, ...

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I realize that the original question was probably regarding a proximate mechanism (i.e., what is in flowers that gives them a particular colour?), but there is another, considerably more interesting, question here: why are so many flowers brightly coloured? ...

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... Germany Received: 31 August 2005 Accepted: 4 January 2006 Published online: 25 January 2006 Abstract Tumor cells act upon, and react to both their proximate and more distant environment, the mechanisms by which this is achieved being both autocrine and paracrine in nature. This interaction, however, ...

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... metabolic rate is energetically possible in this Antarctic sea urchin because the energy cost of protein turnover, 0.45 joules per milligram of protein, ... RNA (per embryo). Normalized to embryo volume, S. neumayeri had approximately 10 times the cellular concentration of poly(A1) RNA (2.67 fg ...

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... (HUS) or heated whole soybeans fermented with either AOS or ROS replaced 50% of the milk protein in isonitrogenous and isoenergetic diets. Proximate and amino acid analyses of HUS and the fermented soybean products, AOS and ROS were similar. Pigs fed a diet containing either HUS or AOS ...

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