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Peaks

peak

The top or upper limit of a graphic tracing or of any variable.

Origin: M.E. Peke, pike, fr. Sp. Pico, beak, fr. L. Picus, magpie


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Re: Cancer and Cell cycle - cyclins/cdk/mutated genes?

... peak at the restriction point, then taper off at S phase) Late-G1 cyclin CDK - Cyclin E-CDK2 (complexes starts right after the restriction point, peaks at the beginning of S phase, then tapers off at the mid S phase) S-phase cyclin-CDK - Cyclin A-CDK2 (begins and ends with the S phase, very distinct) ...

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by kolean
Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:08 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cancer and Cell cycle - cyclins/cdk/mutated genes?
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scandalous question?

Don't go with the almost-urban-myth of human peaks (male, late teens, female, mid-thirties) - that was all based on a small study that wasn't even focused on such a thing, but had a comment that suddenly became big media play.

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by Darby
Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:43 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: scandalous question?
Replies: 5
Views: 678

Northern blot + imageJ + homework help

... around my lanes (crtl+1, crtl+2) of ADH transcripts then crtl+3 makes a graph appear in the example I got the graph looks a lot different. I have peaks and the example has valleys. but I'm told to find the area of the valleys so I kinda did my best in that manner. So I'm left with data (that's ...

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by exothermique
Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:13 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Northern blot + imageJ + homework help
Replies: 0
Views: 477

Re: Does anything affect absorption spectrum of chlorophyll?

... bonded to the chlorophyll, or if this is likely a mistake in the experiment process. Anywho, I'd love to do my report on the significance of the peaks being strange in our anthocyanin plant. I'm guessing my idea is a flop though since I'm almost out of time and I can't really find any data about ...

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by noiseordinance
Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:00 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Does anything affect absorption spectrum of chlorophyll?
Replies: 9
Views: 2136

Re: Does anything affect absorption spectrum of chlorophyll?

One thing to consider, the plant that has really odd chlorophyll a and b peaks is a plant heavy in anthocyanin. I can't for the life of me figure out how anthocyanin would affect separate chloroplast pigments though... it's not like the anthocyanin bonds to ...

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by noiseordinance
Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:22 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Does anything affect absorption spectrum of chlorophyll?
Replies: 9
Views: 2136
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