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Intuitive

1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. Whence the soul reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive. (Milton)

3. Received. Reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; opposed to deductive.

Origin: cf. F. Intuitif.


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Is this right? Anticodons?

Sorry, you're right, not used to this particular terminology. Like a lot of things in DNA (exons, anyone-?), it's pretty counter-intuitive.

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by Darby
Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:16 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Is this right? Anticodons?
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Views: 560

Re: Re:

... would either have to believe in a noosphere where universal gnosis (god if you will) rests undisturbed and eternal, accessible only to extremely intuitive people (since it was written and translated over and over by men - actually, men with a lot of rooted pagan beliefs) whose ability somehow ...

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by enarees
Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:53 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 36
Views: 5161

Re: Re:

... would either have to believe in a noosphere where universal gnosis (god if you will) rests undisturbed and eternal, accessible only to extremely intuitive people (since it was written and translated over and over by men - actually, men with a lot of rooted pagan beliefs) whose ability somehow ...

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by lifemare
Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 36
Views: 5161

Re: IBO 2003 questions- please help me out

... I just followed the order in the question. My private guess had been 1. Histone, 2. DNA Polymerase subunit, 3. Somatotropin, 4. Prolamine. My intuitive argument was that Histones are small and perform a specific, but absolutely crucial function for everything that has distinct chromosomes. ...

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by blcr11
Tue May 13, 2008 10:29 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: IBO 2003 questions- please help me out
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Views: 1557

Exponential Growth and Decay

Well does the answer make intuitive sense? what is happening when you raise 1/2 to a power? You can write out the integer series if it helps.

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by mith
Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:27 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Exponential Growth and Decay
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