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Prediction

The act of making an educated guess as to the outcome of a situation


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need help

... is refering to when they talk about nongenes - the wrong reading frame. If I am to assume the patent is for a machine learning algorithm on gene prediction, this is my take on it. The authors randomly take DNA fragments, and separate them into coding and non-coding depending on if the fragment ...

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by farful
Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:55 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: need help
Replies: 1
Views: 185

A question from Cloning

to the first one: no, i think the epigenetics was what stopped the researchers there. to the second one: you can't really make a prediction until you try it, but i would think not, since i presume metamorphosis has different genetic backgrounds in the two very distantly related organisms. ...

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by MrMistery
Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:07 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: A question from Cloning
Replies: 16
Views: 491

Re: Alternative Theories to Evolution

... that because Darwin never roundly pronounced his theory to be indisputable it means that evidence that arise can usually be fitted in. Such as his prediction that a missing link between ancient ape and man may be found although no remains existed at the time (up until the discovery of Lucy). The ...

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by Blacksun1991
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Alternative Theories to Evolution
Replies: 13
Views: 396

Re: Homework question that I must be over-thinking.

... you create, the idea for how you think something works, is the hypothesis. That's the "The reason I think this is because..." part. The prediction is an observable consequence of your hypothesis which you can then test experimentally. In this case, that is the "My cheek cells will ...

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by jonmoulton
Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:30 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Homework question that I must be over-thinking.
Replies: 2
Views: 732

Homework question that I must be over-thinking.

This is probably so simple that I am overlooking it. I am having a problem with hypotheses and predictions. I have read multiple definitions of the 2 and have went through various examples and I feel silly that I am unsure how to identify a hypothesis and a prediction. ...

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by kaylabarber
Wed May 13, 2009 4:10 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Homework question that I must be over-thinking.
Replies: 2
Views: 732
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