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| bio | website | connermcd.com |
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| location | Texas | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 9 months |
| seen | Feb 3 at 4:08 | |
| stats | profile views | 6 |
I'm a medical student, vim fanboy and general nerd.
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Aug 21 |
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What's a good way to think of how a biological organism operates? Humans inevitably envision levels of abstraction in regards to anything complex, and organisms are undeniably complex. However, your question is rather ambiguous without more pointed guidance. Biologists envision organisms based on years of information they have accumulated about them. Going with the analogy of the programmer, the programmer with the best understanding of a computer understands more and more complexity, not less. However organisms, unlike computers, are not yet fully understood. |
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Aug 21 |
reviewed | Close Is the theory of evolution being disproved by bats? |
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Aug 21 |
reviewed | Leave Open What are the different ways an exon gets spliced? |
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Aug 21 |
reviewed | Leave Open What are the various types of protein-protein interactions |
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Aug 21 |
answered | What would need to be discovered to prove there is extraterrestrial life? |
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Aug 21 |
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What would need to be discovered to prove there is extraterrestrial life? Added tag and fixed some typography. |
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Aug 21 |
suggested | suggested edit on What would need to be discovered to prove there is extraterrestrial life? |
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Aug 20 |
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What are the units of enzyme activity? added 332 characters in body |
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Aug 20 |
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What are the units of enzyme activity? added 13 characters in body |
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Aug 20 |
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What are the units of enzyme activity? added 273 characters in body |
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Aug 20 |
answered | What are the units of enzyme activity? |
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Aug 20 |
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What are the units of enzyme activity? Fixed link. |
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Aug 20 |
suggested | suggested edit on What are the units of enzyme activity? |
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Aug 20 |
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Why do DNA and RNA have the functions they have? True, I didn't mention any reason that it's a particularly good intermediary to be translated. I'm taking a different angle in answering the question by suggesting that maybe it has more to do with the sequence of origins instead of its usefulness as an intermediary. |
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Aug 19 |
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Why is rabies incurable? Fixed minor typographic issues. |
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Aug 19 |
suggested | suggested edit on Why is rabies incurable? |
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Aug 19 |
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Does every mitochondrion in a cell contain the same DNA? 1) You're correct, there are mutations that are not harmful to the mitochondria or cell. 2) Mitochondrial mutation is probably more likely to be harmful than nuclear DNA mutation since it is much less vast. Nuclear DNA is much larger and thus there is less change to mutate something important. 3) I don't know how common it is, but it is possible. |
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Aug 19 |
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Why do DNA and RNA have the functions they have? added 56 characters in body |
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Aug 19 |
answered | Does every mitochondrion in a cell contain the same DNA? |
