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worker

1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. (Shak)

2. (Science: zoology) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.


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How to be "good at the bench"

... and encountering problems with my experimentation skills, I ask all the guru's of mol biology to clarify those terms. What does a 'good laboratory worker' do that an 'ordinary' worker might have missed? How does he execute his experiments that he's always successful? Is it because of good planning? ...

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by jangajarn
Fri May 22, 2009 1:12 am
 
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... rest of the colony; thus they already have a very strong and evolutionarily valid reason to ensure each other's survival. I read somewhere that worker bees share about 75% of their genome, significantly higher than the 50% shared among mammalian siblings and giving them a much stronger reason ...

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by alextemplet
Sun May 03, 2009 2:32 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
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Why are new clothes appealing to us?

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by futurezoologist
Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:43 am
 
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Re: What is the exact definition of life?

I formerly had thought that: life=reproduction. But some living entities ,e.g. mules, worker bees cannot reproduce. Some nonliving things, e.g. flames, salt crystals can reproduce.Later I noticed that all living things on Earth possess protein and/or nucleic acids. ...

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by Alberts
Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:58 am
 
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Topic: What is the exact definition of life?
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What to do, what to do...

... not taken the GRE's, which are required for most of the better schools out there, but I have a strong feeling that I will do well. I am a hard worker and I am quite bright... so I do not forsee any major problems with GRE scores (I did do very well on my SATs). 3) Apply for a Phd. This would ...

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by RTyL
Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:17 pm
 
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Topic: What to do, what to do...
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