DNA
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7.1 Chemical nomenclature (5' and 3')
7.2
sense and antisense
7.3 An exception: viruses
7.4 ... attribute
A-form
B-form
Z-form
Helix
sense right-handed right-handed left-handed
... the 5' strand is said to be descending.
sense and antisense
As a result of their antiparallel ...
Gene
... by splicing . In the primary molecular
sense they represent parts of a gene, however.
All ... the chromosome on which it is situated is in a
sense arbitrary. Genes that appear together on the ... in effect they satisfy the shared and historical
sense of the word. Indeed, a breeder or geneticist, in ...
Human
... [9] [10] (pdf). Language can be central to the
sense of identity that unites cultures and ... religions, such as Shinto , there is a greater
sense of a special character to humans that sets them ... The idea that humans have a mind that is in some
sense separate from their bodies, and that may be ...
Olfaction
... Olfaction , the
sense of smell , is the detection of chemicals ... many vertebrates have an auxiliary olfactory
sense organ called vomeronasal organ , located in the ... important for taste. The human tongue can only
sense 4 different things (some studies say 5, 6 even 7, ...
Proprioception
... Latin proprius , meaning "one's own") is the
sense of the position of parts of the body, relative ... us of the outside world, proprioception is a
sense that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. It is the
sense that indicates whether or not your body is moving ...
Rudolf Steiner
... , physicist Stephen Edelglass' The Marriage of
sense and Thought , biologist Craig Holdrege's ... of a religion, not as a philosopher in the usual
sense of the word. The idea, if there is a degree of ... that all human knowledge of the world is in some
sense determined by subjective principles; but instead ...
Alcohol
... to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage ). This
sense underlies the term alcoholism ( addiction to alcohol). Other forms of ... meaning "spirit" (" spiritual being ") or " demon " — with the
sense "the thing that gives the wine its headiness". The word al-ghawl also ...
Biology
... of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection . In one
sense the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin , whose book The ... (logos) , meaning 'word', the word "biology" in its modern
sense seems to have been introduced independently by Gottfried Reinhold ...
Bioinformatics
... from mRNA microarrays or mass spectrometry .
Making
sense of the huge amounts of DNA data (pictured) produced by gene sequencing ... in a biological sample. Bioinformatics is very much involved in making
sense of protein microarray and HT MS data; the former involves a number of the ...
Bioinformatics
... from mRNA microarrays or mass spectrometry .
Making
sense of the huge amounts of DNA data (pictured) produced by gene sequencing ... in a biological sample. Bioinformatics is very much involved in making
sense of protein microarray and HT MS data; the former involves a number of the ...
Equilibrium
... balance of humans and animals is maintained with the aid of the
sense of balance , and in special cases with a balance beam .
See also the ... in game theory, an optimum strategy for all players in a game, in the
sense that no one player can benefit by changing his strategy while all other ...
Operator
... sort, in which case operator is synonymous with the usual mathematical
sense of operation .
To draw attention to the function codomain; for example ... x =(x 1 , x 2 )
Q(x 1 , x 2 )=(-x 1 , x 2 )
We can also make
sense of linear operators between generalisations of finite- dimensional vector ...
Vestibular system
... is inhibited, and vice versa.
This push-pull system allows us to
sense all directions of rotation: while
the right horizontal canal gets ...
While the semicircular canals respond to rotations, the otoliths
sense linear accelerations. We have
two on each side, one called Utricle , the ...
Abiogenesis
... matter, which is apt to receive the form of that creature to which it is by formative power disposed. To question this is to question reason,
sense and experience. If he doubts of this let him go to Egypt , and there he will find the fields swarming with mice, begot of the mud of Nylus, to the ...
Audition
... Audition can refer to:
The
sense of hearing
The audio editing software Adobe Audition
Japanese movie Audition by Takashi Miike .
Czech movie Audition by Milos ...
Culture
... music , and the word cultured to refer to people who know about, and take part in, these activities. For example, someone who used 'culture' in the
sense of 'cultivation' might argue that classical music is more refined than music by working-class people such as punk rock or the indigenous music ...
DNA sequence
... greater than four is liable to be called a sequence. With regard to its biological function, which may depend on context, a sequence may be
sense or anti-sense (see DNA ), and either coding or noncoding . DNA sequences can also contain " junk DNA ".
See also
DNA
DNA ...
Eye
... of creatures. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark. More complex eyes are used to provide the
sense of vision .
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2 Focusing
3 Convergence
4 Ocular Anatomy
...
Flaviviridae
... classical swine fever or hog cholera)
The genome of the Flaviviridae viruses is a monopartite, linear, single-stranded RNA of positive
sense that is 10,000-11,000 nucleotides long. The 5'-terminus carries a methylated nucleotide cap or a genome-linked protein. The virus itself is ...
Cell membrane
... in the bilayer assist in regulating fluidity.
Detailed Structure
In fact, not all lipid molecules in the cell membrane are "fluid," in the
sense of free to diffuse. Lipid rafts and caveolae are examples of more cohesive membrane regions. Across the membrane globally, also many proteins ...
Hermaphrodite
... than enough sperm to fertilize a huge number of eggs , while a female's egg output increases greatly with an increase in size, this strategy makes
sense for an organism (fishes in general) where over 90% of the eggs laid will not result in a fish that reaches sexual maturity. It has been shown that ...
Homeostasis
... Homeostasis in the human body
4 Other fields
4.1 Examples
5 See also
Overview
The term is most often used in the
sense of biological homeostasis. homeo- similar or same. stasis- standing or stopping.
Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal ...
Homunculus
... a homunculus ( Latin for "little man," sometimes spelled "homonculus") is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system. In the scientific
sense of an unknowable prime actor, it can be viewed as an entity or agent .
The term appears to have been first used by the alchemist Paracelsus . ...
Infertility
... treatment.
Social impact
In many cultures, inability to conceive bears a stigma. In closed social groups, a degree of rejection (or a
sense of being rejected by the couple) may cause considerable anxiety and disappointment.
Notes
International Council on Infertility Information ...
Ion channel
... rapid changes in cells. In the search for any drug, ion channels are a favorite target.
Diversity and activation
Voltage-gated channels
sense the transmembrane potential and open or close in response to depolarization or hyperpolarization , respectively. Examples include the sodium ...
Memory
... learning
The Memory-Prediction Framework- An Acclaimed Unifying Theory of Memory
Mnemonic
Muscle memory or proprioception : the
sense and memory of where parts of our body are in space
External links
Memory Exercises , a memory wiki
...
Muscle
... in posture often are controlled from nuclei in the brain stem and basal ganglia .
Afferent leg
Sometimes known as muscle memory , the
sense of where our bodies are in space is called proprioception , the perception of body awareness. More easily demonstrated than explained, ...
Natural selection
... selection acts.
It is important to note that the term "natural selection" is often used in the inaccurate yet fairly harmless metaphorical
sense as having causal status. To be precise, natural selection is not truly a "mechanism" in itself, as opposed to something like gravity. Instead, ...
Nervous system
... danger or stress, and is responsible for the increase of one's heartbeat and blood pressure, among other physiological changes, along with the
sense of excitement he feels. The parasympathetic nervous system, on the other hand, is evident when a person is resting and feels relaxed, and is ...
Cell membrane
... in the bilayer assist in regulating fluidity.
Detailed Structure
In fact, not all lipid molecules in the cell membrane are "fluid," in the
sense of free to diffuse. Lipid rafts and caveolae are examples of more cohesive membrane regions. Across the membrane globally, also many proteins ...
Population
... For the use of the word population in statistics, see statistical population .
In the most common
sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species —living in a given geographic area .
...
Potential energy
... in space. An example of a non-conservative force is friction. With friction, the route you take does affect the amount of work done, and it makes no
sense at all to define a potential associated with friction.
All the examples above are actually force field stored energy (sometimes in disguise). For ...
Proteome
... all of the proteins in a virus can be called a viral proteome.
The proteome is larger than the genome , expecially in eukaryotes , in the
sense there are more proteins than genes . This is due to alternative splicing of genes and post-translational modifications like glycosylation or ...
Retrovirus
...
Epsilonretrovirus
Lentivirus
Spumavirus
A retrovirus is a virus which has a genome consisting of two identical plus
sense RNA molecules. It relies on reverse transcriptase to perform a kind of reverse transcription of its genome from RNA into DNA for insertion ...
Secondary metabolite
... those products (chemical compounds) of metabolism that are not essential for normal growth, development or reproduction of an organism . In this
sense they are "secondary".
The function or importance of these compounds to the organism's development is usually of ecological nature as they are used ...
Sequencing
... For the
sense of "sequencing" used in electronic music , see the music sequencer article.
In genetics and biochemistry , sequencing means to determine ...
Signal transduction
... the intracellular events triggered by the external signal are considered distinct from the event of "transduction" itself, which in the strictest
sense refers only to the step that converts the extracellular signal to an intra cellular one.
Intracellular signalling molecules in eukaryotic cells ...
Species
... (or trinomial nomenclature ) by which scientists typically refer to organisms.
It is the only taxonomic level which has empirical content, in the
sense that asserting that two animals are of different species is saying something more than classificatory about them.
After thousands of years of ...
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
... indicated by the manufacturers, they are also sometimes prescribed to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome .
SSRIs are not addictive in the strict
sense of the word (i.e. animals given free access to the drug do not actively seek it out and do not seek to increase the dose), but suddenly discontinuing ...
Stem cell
... him as follows (22 March 2005, p. 4):
Adult stem cells isolated from the olfactory mucosa (cells linking the inside of the nose involved in the
sense of smell) have the ability to develop into many different cell types if they are given the right chemical environment.
These adult olfactory stem ...