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Affect spasms

Rarely used term for spasmodic attacks of laughing, weeping, and screaming, accompanied by marked tachypnea.


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... as I just defined it? One interesting example is changes in bird beak size brought on by changes in diet. In songbirds, the size of the beak affects the song that the birds sing. It has been documented that changes in beak size brought on by changes in diet can alter the song that birds sing ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16579

Antibiotic effect

... antibiotics are called bacteriostatic. Streptomycin, however, is bactericidal antibiotic as far as I know, and thus it kills bacteria that it affects (it is bacteriostatic on lower concentrations, though). There are many bactericidal antibiotics, you should look at some pharmacology guide ...

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by biohazard
Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:33 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Antibiotic effect
Replies: 5
Views: 181

Re: malaria- sickle cell

Which type of anti-Malaria tablets work best with the least number of side affects yada yada? I am going to Indonesia this year on a trip with university and will be needing anti-Malaria tablets and was wondering which ones were best? I have talked to some people ...

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by merisalam
Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:40 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: malaria- sickle cell
Replies: 2
Views: 251

Genomic Imprinting In Humans (and classical genetics)

As I understand it, imprinting is a chemical change in the DNA in the allele - methylation of some sort - that is potentially reversible. It affects expression of the allele but not the coding itself.

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by Darby
Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:23 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Genomic Imprinting In Humans (and classical genetics)
Replies: 7
Views: 368

Darwin and Racism

... his other opinions about races matter in this regard? Heck, even if he liked to molest little children and call all women sluts it still hardly affects whether or not he is the father of the theory of evolution and a great scientist because of that. Even if the creationists' favourite devil ...

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by biohazard
Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:33 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Darwin and Racism
Replies: 19
Views: 428
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