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Acquisition

Acquisition

in psychology, the empirical demonstration of an increase in the strength of the conditioned response in successive trials of pairing the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus. The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; the child's acquisition of language.


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Re: Competitive/Non competitive inhibitors

There are baby oligosaccharide inhibitors of amylase, too. These you apparently won’t acquisition laying about a archetypal undergraduate laboratory. You ability accede authoritative some array of aqueous abstract of seeds, seedlings, or sprouts to see if you can get ...

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by rsreign
Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:45 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Competitive/Non competitive inhibitors
Replies: 3
Views: 876

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... the rapid proliferation of evolutionary novelties which undoubtedly occurred at this time, at least some of the phenomenon is attributable to the acquisition of preservational characteristics - 'hard parts' - and multiple lines of evidence reveal that life was already highly diversified prior ...

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by AstusAleator
Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:42 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16298

Re: transfection

... Because the term transformation had another sense in animal cell biology (a genetic change allowing long-term propagation in culture, or acquisition of properties typical of cancer cells), the term transfection acquired, for animal cells, its present meaning of a change in cell properties ...

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by sam2008
Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:56 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: transfection
Replies: 2
Views: 671

Bacteria Lab Prelab question help?

... the same enzyme system as theirs and thus are more likely competitors for food. But I agree with Cat, in that they may be an adaptation for the acquisition of food. Also, for protection; some bacteria do produce fungicide too.

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by mkwaje
Mon May 19, 2008 1:32 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Bacteria Lab Prelab question help?
Replies: 2
Views: 1075

Re:

... a bad effect on the organism. I would add a few things: -this discard horizontal genetic transfer (HGT), which seems to be very important in gene acquisition and quite frequent now that we can see whole genomes. There are also gene duplications. So it's not just deletions and point mutations. ...

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by canalon
Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:50 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
Replies: 266
Views: 26815
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