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Virus

...aided European attempts to displace or conquer the native population. Jared Diamond argued in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel that highly contagious diseases develop in agricultural societies and regularly aid those societies when they expand into the territories of non-agricultural peoples. Of all typ...

Tertiary structure

...hysiological role inside a cell is known as the native state or sometimes the native conformation . A protein assumes tertiary structure by " folding ". An important type of chemical b...

Structural biology

...t often researchers use them to study the static " native states " of macromolecules. But variations on thes... or denatured molecules assume or reassume their native states (see e.g. protein folding ). A third approach that structural biologists take to understan...

Semen

...e one for sperm cells, it is very acidic (from the native microflora producing lactic acid ), viscous, and ... the sperm. These antibodies mistakenly recognized native T lymphocytes as foreign antigens , and consequently the T lymphyocytes would fall under attack...

Protein

...o which a protein naturally folds is known as its native state , which is determined by its sequence of ami...ne conformation is considered to be the active, or native conformation. The two ends of the amino acid chain are referred to as the carboxy terminus (C-ter...

Protein biosynthesis

...olypeptide chains often fold to assume, so called, native secondary and tertiary structures . This is known as protein folding . Many proteins undergo post-translational modification . This is may include the formation of disulfide bridges or attachment of any of a number of biochemical functiona...

Nutrition

...animal-based food. The closer the food is to its native state -- with minimal heating, salting and processing -- the greater will be the benefit."(Cornell Chronicle 28/6/01) [2] Nutrition and longevity Lifespan is somehow related to the amount of food energy consumed: this was first systematical...

Molecular biology

...chers in molecular biology use specific techniques native to molecular biology (see Techniques section later in article), but increasingly combine these with techniques and ideas from genetics , biochemistry and biophysics . There is not a hard-line between these disciplines as there once was. The f...

Insectivore

..., butterworts , and sundews . They are generally native to poor soils that lack nitrogen , which they obtain by trapping insects. See also: Insectivora...

Gel electrophoresis

...ne in an SDS polyacrylamide gel ( SDS-PAGE ), by native gel electrophoresis , or by 2-D electrophoresis . Capillary electrophoresis DNA electrophoresis Zymography See also Protein electrophoresis Electrofocusing Southern blotting Northern blotting Western blotting Ex...

Gel electrophoresis

...ne in an SDS polyacrylamide gel ( SDS-PAGE ), by native gel electrophoresis , or by 2-D electrophoresis . Capillary electrophoresis DNA electrophoresis Zymography See also Protein electrophoresis Electrofocusing Southern blotting Northern blotting Western blotting Ex...

Cryptozoology

... days of western exploration of the world, many native tales of unknown animals were initially dismissed...raditions regarding unknown undescribed animals in native folklore should not be summarily dismissed in the same way. There are several animals cited as exam...

Charles Darwin

...a multitude of living organisms as well as meeting native peoples. He methodically collected an enormous number of specimens, many new to science, which established his reputation as a naturalist and made him one of the precursors of ecology . His detailed notes formed the basis for his later work as well...