Bell jar

... on you. divergence does not only address sexual selection. Any selection can cause divergence. It's a simple concept really. Imagine a standard bell-curve as an "ideal" distribution of a trait in a population - then add selective pressure to the very middle of that distribution, and ...

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Hi, I am doing my dissataion on mathematical modelling of cell adhesion. I have read many arcticles on this including Bell. I am closley following Bells model. However i am a civil engineerer and don not understand certain terms. Specific, and Non-Specific are two terms which i could ...

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Oh I was kidding, btw the graph looks like a proportional increase of activity as pH rises from 0-14. Not necessarily linear but definitely not bell shaped.

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... anything wrong with the link. I'll have to try later this evening on another computer. I was assuming the plot looked at least a little like a bell curve, but maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe the pH optimum is something like pH 2 or 3 and all the data points are at pH 4 and above. Just a warning about ...

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The pH-activity profile for most enzymes is bell-shaped. There is a pH at which the velocity is maximal, and then activity falls off at pHs above or below the pH optimum. If you have enough points you could fit some sort of interpolating polynomial, ...

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