Common name: thorn wood. acetyl CoA Acetyl coenzyme A: a molecule that can donate its (two-carbon) acetyl group to production of fatty acids or to the citric acid cycle, where it is broken down to yield energy. acetylcholine An ...
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... 319 intelligence of, 277–9, 281–2, 287–8, 293 Charon, 253, 255 Chemolithotrophs on Earth, 83 On Mars, 123, 184 Chen, Y.-J., 250 Chlathrate, 237, 313 Chloride, 34, 35 Chlorine, 21, 23–4 Christiansen, E., 172 Chryse Planitia (Mars), ...
Heteroduplexes with both chains fully methylated were refractory to repair, but in the heteroduplexes with one completely methylated and one unmethylated strand the frequency of repair on the latter was 100%.
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In Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science, Alexander Rosenberg argues that while physics and chemistry can develop laws that reveal the structure of natural phenomena, biology is fated to be a practical, instrumental discipline.