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water bear

(Science: zoology) Any species of tardigrada.


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Re: cryogenics?

... DMSO and glycerol. Also, some small invertebraters such as tardigrada (water bears) use the sugar trehalose to prevent ice crystal formation, and thus they can survive ...

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Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:58 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: cryogenics?
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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... cope with our environment better, and we are able to acquire food and water better. The marvelous evolution of the brain has yielded something ... care of children, thereby improving his chances of mating with her to bear his own children. So the problem I have with evolutionary psychology ...

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Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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Electricity directly from a plant

... in fact I'm still in high school and I passed Bio with a C+, so bear with me if I am blatantly saying something impossible, or am contradicting ... tell me though. So from what I know about photosynthesis, it splits water into oxygen and hydrogen along with carbon dioxide and take the dioxide ...

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Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:16 am
 
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Topic: Electricity directly from a plant
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The Fiber Disease

... active in dissolving minerals and metals when solutions are in water. The metallic minerals simply dissolve into ionic form, and disappear ... of cells. In reviewing and evaluating these reports, it is important to bear in mind that leading scientists agree with Roger J. Williams in recognizing ...

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by codon blue
Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:57 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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protein please...

protein is still soluble in water, because it bears charge, but the overall charge is 0. The effect is not that is will be insoluble, but it won't move ...

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by sdekivit
Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:48 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: protein please...
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