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Shuffle

shuffle

1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . Hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. (Shak)

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. (Shak)

4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. (Keats)

Synonym: To equivicate, prevaricate, quibble, cavil, shift, siphisticate, juggle.


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... but they are only part of the whole process: gene duplications, genetic transfer (whatever the mechanism), crossing over and everything that shuffle and distribute gene can impact the fitness of the organisms, and all that will be subject to selection. That is what is covered y the word evolution. ...

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by enarees
Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:12 pm
 
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Re: Re:

... but they are only part of the whole process: gene duplications, genetic transfer (whatever the mechanism), crossing over and everything that shuffle and distribute gene can impact the fitness of the organisms, and all that will be subject to selection. That is what is covered y the word evolution.

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by canalon
Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:58 am
 
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Are you kidding?

... professor Hubert Yockey said in "Calculation of probability of spotaneous bio-genesis by information theory": If you were to thoroughly shuffle ten flash cards numbered one-to-ten and laid them out, the odds of them lining up in order is one in 3,628,800. The probability rapidly decreases ...

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... hat not behind barz..... could the wasp package morph to protamines like russian doll???not a single mode of life left gets out of the gene shuffle.................................this psycho bitches theory is leaning to form a kingdom shift that is encoded in the wasp package per genetic ...

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i figured it out

... their DNA. If you could design a virus to work like an antigen then it would enter the body and recognize it's antigens as "foreign" and shuffle the DNA to produce antibodies against them. When this happens the immune system should break down considerably leaving the virus to move through ...

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by chloe18
Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:04 pm
 
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