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Viable

Definition

adjective

(1) Alive; capable of living, developing, or reproducing, as in a viable cell.

(2) Able to live on its own or outside the uterus, used of an embryo, fetus or newborn.

(3) Possible; practicable; capable of being done.


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Word origin: French » Mediaeval Latin *vitabilis (“‘capable of life’”) » Latin vita (“‘life’”).
Related forms: viability.

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UWM is seeking testers for a new protein expression kit

Dr. M.L.P. Collins at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has developed a new method for making large quantities of active, viable proteins using Rhodospirillum rubrum as a host. R. Rubrum is a bacterium that has traditionally been studied for its simple photosynthetic system, has demonstrated ...

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by ejhuwmfdn
Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:05 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: UWM is seeking testers for a new protein expression kit
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Views: 885

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... difficult for taxa to change their body plan once it was established. Screwing with Hox genes in a complex mammal would probably not result in a viable organism , but screwing with Hox genes in an insect? That can work. My guess would be this is why we see more variation in the number of limbs ...

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by elvex1
Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:20 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: On the number of limbs.
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Views: 1341

On the number of limbs.

... difficult for taxa to change their body plan once it was established. Screwing with Hox genes in a complex mammal would probably not result in a viable organism, but screwing with Hox genes in an insect? That can work. My guess would be this is why we see more variation in the number of limbs ...

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by Luxorien
Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:46 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: On the number of limbs.
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Views: 1341

Spectrophotometry - why can't some products be read?

... information. Any way, I'm told that the reason why we need to do coupled reactions is because with spectrophotometry, not all reactions will give viable products that can be read. In this case, it would be G-6-P. My question though is, why? What properties of G-6-P make it unreadable? The only ...

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by keetner
Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:16 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Spectrophotometry - why can't some products be read?
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How are balancer chromosomes introduced?

... homozygotes are selected from each stock in the winter and offspring from both die. In the summer, offspring from homozygotes of one stock A are viable, while the offspring from homozygotes of stock B die. How does this happen? The time difference must be a factor, I imagine. Also, the TM2 balancer ...

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by hnanon
Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:24 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: How are balancer chromosomes introduced?
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