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Is DNA Compressed?

Is DNA Compressed?


Is DNA Compressed?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:26 AM PDT

Are any parts of DNA compressed like a zip file? If so, what is the mechanism for interpretation to uncompress it?

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What happened to the hole in the ozone layer?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:15 AM PDT

How can hormones and other proteins in food (meat/milk etc.) affect us if all proteins get broken down into amino acids before being absorbed?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:00 AM PDT

There are many opinions floating around about how "humans aren't supposed to drink milk" because the hormones in it are for baby cows and growth/fertility hormones given to farm animals are detrimental to our health when we eat them. While I don't have strong feelings about either of these issues I do want to know if they have any valid reasoning. Granted my understanding of digestion is pretty basic but I can't imagine we have receptors for hormones on the outside of the digestive tract, or that proteins that large can be absorbed without breaking them down.

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If there are 3 space dimensions and one time dimension, is it theoretically possible to have multiple time demensions and if so how would it work?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 12:34 PM PDT

How do composites of fermions acquire Bose-Einstein statistics?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:42 PM PDT

For example, I can have two pions in the exact same quantum state. But it seems like exchanging the two up quarks in the pions should cause the wave function to change sign without changing the state, implying that the amplitude of this state is zero, by the same argument used for the PEP for unbound fermions.

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What specific adaptations, if any, have Caribou acquired to cope with the large amount of lichen in their winter diet?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:52 AM PDT

The Earth bulges at the equator because it is spinning. Are equatorial bulges present on gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 03:10 PM PDT

Does the bulge change at all because its gas? I.E, is it larger or smaller when proportionally compared to earth. Thanks

Here is what I'm referencing for the curious:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge

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Could any plants grow anywhere on Mars?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 06:56 AM PDT

Seeing as Mars has a wide variation in temperature and ground water could any plants from Earth grow anywhere on the planet for even a short time? If not, how close are any plants to being able to grow there?

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How does the body keep our nerves, the tendons, veins and arteries from tangling into a mess?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:20 AM PDT

What exactly is irrotationality in fluid flow? Does it refer to the circular paths of fluid particles or the rotation of the particles about their own axis or both?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 10:09 PM PDT

This is the assumption made while deriving Bernoulli equation, though never specifies as to what it is referring.

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Why are microwaves used for Microwave Ovens instead of visible or infrared light?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:29 PM PDT

If there is more energy in visible light and infrared, why do we use microwave light for Microwave ovens?

Wouldn't a Visible Light appliance with the same concept of a Microwave be even more efficient at beating our food? The same could be said for Infrared Light?

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For PRBS3 with clock input on each gate, how can you work out the sequence?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 03:05 PM PDT

I've seen them described on Wikipedia, but I don't understand the process of working out the states, and the order that they repeat in.

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How do we know that when pi is used in a formula is it actually pi and not something similar?

Posted: 04 Apr 2017 05:24 AM PDT

For example Coulomb's law Has 4π ε0. Where ε0 is 8.85 × 10-12 F m-1 How do we know that it's π and we haven't just made ε0 different. Like ε0 supposed to be 2.78*10-11 F m-1 but we saw that a bit of π was a factor so we put it in there?

Same for the formula for magnetic field strength it also has π and a constant in it. How do we know that it's π and not just something close?

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In the history of life on Earth, around when did the first fart occur, and what would the organism that dealt it have been like?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 03:48 PM PDT

I'm thinking it would be the first animal to have a gastrointestinal tract, but maybe I'm wrong.

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What are some problems or disadvantages of Thorium nuclear reactors?

Posted: 03 Apr 2017 12:12 PM PDT

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