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Descriptive

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. Which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Descriptively, Descriptiveness.

Origin: L. Descriptivus: cf. F. Descriptif.


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Re: Line/Curve of Best Fit?

... you'd be wanting to do a logit regression, maybe, or fit a sigmoidal model to the data--things like that. But here I think the curve is mostly descriptive. There really isn't an underlying model to fit the data to unless I misunderstand your description of the data.

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by blcr11
Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:32 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Line/Curve of Best Fit?
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Re: Identify the nucleic acid!

... see that lambda exonuclease cannot initiate digestion from a nick or a gap (although it does have very weak activity against ssDNA or so says the descriptive blurb in the NEB catalog), so if it cannot work on circles at all, then you are right about it not being a fair question. I think you can ...

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by blcr11
Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:11 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Identify the nucleic acid!
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Views: 587

Re: if you were to...

you should start using more descriptive subject lines

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by mith
Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:47 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: stem cell presentation
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help on correct descriptive statistics of a project

Hi! Quick background information on my project: 24 subjects (animals) divided in 4 groups (each group represents a type of diet) The research is to find out wether a difference in type of diet results in a different effect in coagulation => I know I have to use ANOVA or Wilcoxon signed rank test,...

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by Lucanus cervus
Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:09 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: help on correct descriptive statistics of a project
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Views: 569

Two questions on gene -> protein synthesis

Hi, I gave up biology in the tenth grade because the endless terminology of descriptive biology was too boring for me, but I've continued to independently study the parts I like (biochemistry, MCB, genetics, evolution). Two questions occurred to me: 1)Every chromosome ...

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by loom91
Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:06 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Two questions on gene -> protein synthesis
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