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spike

An unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are without stalks. Fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn.


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Re: HELP with Ecosystem

spike in insects, loss of plant life, reduction in major predation

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by bituufg
Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:05 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: HELP with Ecosystem
Replies: 4
Views: 1986

Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)

... and cannot sustain them, when herbivores get a higher ratio than plants (and plants number start to drop exponentially) carnivores enter that spike too due to abumdance of food, eventually depleting herbivores capacity to reproduce at that speed. At that point herbivores are already dropping ...

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by Smig
Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:04 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)
Replies: 11
Views: 3235

Re: What kills (and what saves) a corpus luteum?

... It doesn't say if hCG does the same job as interferon-gamma, or if it does direct blocking or what. I assume from the above that the oxytocin spike which initiates labor would cause a large spike in PGF2, finally killing the corpus luteum right during/shortly after birth. Anyway, I now understand ...

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by jasonfahy
Mon May 05, 2008 4:58 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: What kills (and what saves) a corpus luteum?
Replies: 3
Views: 1669

Re: inactive enzyme after purification with Ni-TED

... and has a relatively large change in pH with changes in temperature, so I don’t like to use Tris for cold-room work, though I have. You could also spike your binding, washing and elution buffers with 1-10 mM Mn—I don’t know how much would be needed to keep the Mn on the protein and you'd be walking ...

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by blcr11
Sat May 03, 2008 9:32 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: inactive enzyme after purification with Ni-TED
Replies: 3
Views: 687

Stomach bloating and weight gain

... my stomach bloated very bloated. My heath for last 10 years has been a downhill slide. I am unable to handle stress,get angry and I have a temp spike,flu like chills ,fever,headache etc. When the stomach bloating started i had been given very stressful news. Has anyone associated this with stress? ...

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by Deonmc
Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:04 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 485290
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