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Repel

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verb

(1) To resist; to ward off

(2) To draw away by means of force


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Word origin: From Middle English repellen, from Old French repeller, from Latin repellere (to drive back)

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electroporation

... incompatible because of other replication origin. Inserting gDNA doesn't make sense since bacteria cannot have two chromosomes and thus would one repel probably (even keeping the plasmid without antibiotic selection will be hard).

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by JackBean
Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:00 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: electroporation
Replies: 46
Views: 8368

Irrefutable Facts Against Evolution

... here one by one, listing the point number in some sort of way. 1)The Structure of Protons in the Nucleus Protons, being of like charge, naturally repel each other. Speeds needed for nuclear fusion does not occur naturally in nature. We attempt to produce nuclear fusion, and even then, the process ...

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by Tomn
Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:49 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Irrefutable Facts Against Evolution
Replies: 46
Views: 31857

Digestive System Evolution

... the basis of all life. Everything that is alive has carbon. Carbon has 6 protons. Protons, in the natural world, do not bind to each other. They repel each other. Also, the speed needed for nuclear fusion do not occur naturally, by itself, in the natural world. Yet protons are held together in ...

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by Tomn
Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:47 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Digestive System Evolution
Replies: 60
Views: 86272

The big Challenge in Biology

... moments and charges, and you have nucleic acids forming. They swarm over each other. Matching charges to charges. Some connect, while others repel. Nothing is 'being degraded' at this point in time, but just transferred from one molecule to the next. There is no replication that is pre-ordained. ...

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by kolean
Tue May 11, 2010 8:58 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The big Challenge in Biology
Replies: 18
Views: 6021

Membrane Structure

... in that it gives the cell membrane more rigidity than just a single tail would, plus the single phosphate on the top would have more room and not repel the other phosphates from the neighboring ones.

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by kolean
Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:44 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Membrane Structure
Replies: 4
Views: 1910
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