Configurations

... have their own sets of DNA (mitochondrial DNA) which replicate independently of the parent cell and retain to a large degree their ancestral configurations. Furthermore the multiple membrane configuration of the mito or chloroplast is an indicator that these organelles might not have originated ...

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... have their own sets of DNA (mitochondrial DNA) which replicate independently of the parent cell and retain to a large degree their ancestral configurations. Furthermore the multiple membrane configuration of the mito or chloroplast is an indicator that these organelles might not have originated ...

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... -- some changes would be harmful, but others wouldn't matter. The functional areas, such as catalytic sites, must retain particular amino acid configurations or the protein will lose or alter a function. If the proteins is doing something that helps the organism survive and reproduce, the critical ...

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change in S is Q/T, there is no actual S for any one particle, it's a group phenomenon which makes sense because it's a measure of different configurations available to a system.

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... Diffusion is driven by pretty much two things: entropy and brownian motion. The assumption of entropy is that there are a number of different configurations, each equally likely. the usual example is throwing a set of dices. Each dice is independent of other dices and each outcome is equally ...

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