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How about this.... why, M8, do you want to switch to business? Of course, there is money in it... But still... why? The way I see it, it's a good idea to have something to fall back on. If you want to make knowledge of business your fall back, then that's ok with me. But I think you got into genetics, because you have an interest in the sciences. If it's about the money, then I think you might be able to find some other ways to apply your knowledge in the job market to get a stable job. Personally, I can see the entertainment in accounting, as I'm quite good at it. However, I would not want to make a career out of it. At the same time, however, I would do it to earn money. Yet I would still pursue my greater interests until a professional job is secured. That's what I continue to do. I didn't want to be certified in a nursing field, yet I am because it pays. I also underwent the training, because it didn't take too long. I could be paid about $2.00 more an hour if I decided to take a year to be an x-ray technician. I think the length is ridiculous and wish I could cram it into a summer session. Then again, it beats lifting people or the alternative basic job of lifting heavy objects for ~8 hours a day.

Yes, put about 6 or 8 varied jewels of different colors on it.

Excellent. Thank you. So, it's safe to assume there is more than one mitochondrion in an ovum cell at one time? Pg. 17 seems to show miraculously many mitochondria is some static situations. These mitochondria are marked "m." p.s. How did you go about finding that? Pubmed, I'm guessing. Any keywords you used to unlock such a document?

I have an account there. It's been lying dead for a few years. I used it recently to talk about a statistical package and GNU/Linux program. I stick around SFN and sciencemadness for the most part.

That's not what I'm aiming for. I want to see it in an ovum gamete. Thank you, though.

You see, that's what I'm reading. Yet I have not found a picture proving such a case. When I don't seem to have physical evidence proving the fact, I tend to generate fuzzy ideas about what I'm reading. Got any decent ideas where I can find one, CharonY? p.s. Thanks for the affirmation, CharonY.

No, I'm not.

I didn't think there was. I'm reading about cytoplasmic inheritance again and endosymbiosis. I could be wrong.

Yes, well done. Of course, I'm a fool. I should have stated that I'm trying to find an image a mitochondrion in a mother's gamete, such as an ovum. There is such a thing, right? * note: original post has been edited to say "ovum" instead of "gamete."

Anyone have a picture of a mitochondrion in a ovum? I can't find one. I'd probably have to search for hours/days for a picture of one in some journal. Otherwise, I don't think I know where I could find a picture of a mitochondrion in an ovum. Hence, I tried Google. If you know of a journal article that shows an obvious mitochondrion in a gamete, that will work, too.

That's typically one of the few things of discourse/argumentation during public discussion (a person at least state the author or the work). Otherwise, you could simply say the person is talking nonsense and put a UAG to all of it.

I'm sorry. What was the question? I would love to see the studies that discuss shrinkage of the brain after usage of ritalin. About the only drastic thing I've heard about ritalin (I have no source) is that it can cause developmental issues in a child's sexual drive, thus making the child indifferent to sexual desire ("decrease in sexual drive"). It was quite some time ago I heard about this. I think there is/are a/some genes that influences people to not pay attention, talk to squirrels and chase bunnies, and deem Boxxy as their queen.

So, a question popped into my head. Maybe I'm not understanding the dynamics and mechanics of the H2O molecule, but I thought I would pose the question. Why does water trade-off the H+ ion to another water molecule while in equilibrium? Why? Does that not take energy? And as such, shouldn't that eventually decrease the energy in a system, thus reducing water's ability to maintain an equilibrium? I believe the modern belief is that water at equilibrium is always trading off the H+ ion, but that takes an amount of energy, right? Bonds and broken and re-created, right?

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Scientists are suppose to remain skeptical. It's ok for people to generate arguments, though.

Didn't we have a thread on here about these AMSCOPE things? I could have sworn there was one a while ago. From what I remember, people have been satisfied, and I've been thinking about buying one. Here we go: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27423&highlight=AMSCOPE Are you guys sure LEDs are a cool light source? I remember playing with the things as a kid when I learned learning about electronics, and I burned myself once. Then again, maybe it was the amount of current being transformed into heat from the setup I had.

@ Phi for All How does it taste with some kool-aid? I rate how decent a sugar substitute is based on how a glass of kool-aid tastes with the sugar substitute in it. @ John What are you saying, John Cuthber? Are you implying that you believe it has toxic effects? -- In general, I haven't tried stevia as of yet. I've been using splenda for a few years, but I'm willing to try something else if it makes a glass of grape kool-aid taste much better and similar to the level of a glass of grape kool-aid with regular sugar.

Here you go. Get a bunch of people, do some studies, and write up a report. "Spy Gear Spy Video ATV 360" http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3099684 Also see this: "November 29,2008" http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RDWPhoto2008.htm

Well, seeing as getting that entero would be unusual, since most people use gloves when playing with germs, I'm going to throw out the idea it was the entero. It'd be kind of unusual for it to show up. S. aureus is around a lot, but for it to give a black dot? Probably not.

You're right, CharonY. They don't cover all spectrum of bacteria. Still, I'm sure there is some quick kit to take care of this business. And if a person can understand how to make a kit and the logic behind the kit, well, then that kind of takes care of making a bunch of dishes. @ OP Is it even possible to determine the second bacteria with this much data? I'm not sure. Enterococcus faecalis is gram-pos. Staph. aur. is gram-pos. Notice you had two selective plates. You say one is Proteus vulgaris. If you're sure it's not S. aureus, then there should be some other test you did to differentiate between the Enterococcus faecalis idea and S. aureus. That's what will help point you. Perhaps you had contamination on that last test you mentioned, which is why it had yellow and black.

Buy an enterotube and manual, throw the sucker in, and get through the game. Other than that, your flow chart isn't showing. What most people don't realize early in the "unknown" game is that if you throw the thing into an enterotube and decipher the result, you can be done within a week: That's for generic bacteria. If I remember correctly, black means that it uses iron sulfide? Or something like that..

Let's see if I get the idea: 1. Gene encodes for mRNA 2. Some other gene codes for miRNA (but won't be transcribed yet) 3. mRNA is released to cytoplasm 4. mRNA starts forming proteins 5. After a certain amount of proteins are built, a signal is created to induce miRNA to be expressed 6. miRNA is created and released to the cytoplasm 7. It undergoes alterations, such as dicing 8. The miRNA binds to RISC to make a RISC complex 9. From there, the RISC complex binds to the mRNA that has been making proteins 10. The RISC complex shuts down that mRNA, and perhaps creates some signal that prevents the mRNA that was making proteins from being transcribed again The reason the RISC complex exists is because organisms needed a way to degrade mRNA. Otherwise, mRNA would continually build proteins and whatnot. Right? Are we to say that before the early-1990s that modern scientists did not think or consider that a process existed to degrade or control mRNA?

Alright, I've tried reading up about miRNA and RISC, but I still lack an understanding of their functions. So, let me see if I get this right. 1. The nucleus generates a piece of double stranded miRNA. 2. The double stranded miRNA gets captured by a RISC 3. If the miRNA matches some part of the RISC, then the miRNA is destroyed. Right? Wrong? I've been reading that somehow this process slows down mRNA translation? I don't see how that works. I've read wikipedia, but has yet to help.

Yes, but the point is that Motoko's brain would be a robot brain. The biological principles that Homo sapiens simply wouldn't apply to the full extent. We can, however, create a real world example these days. There exist visual eyepieces that people can wear in order to view a monitor. Let's put the eyepiece on the right eye. Let's call the visual space seen as Desktop 2. So, the left eye is viewing Desktop 1 (the real world through visual sensory). If I can divide my attention between Desktop 1 and Desktop 2, then I can get a lot of work done. Division of attention between the right eye and the left eye would be occurring. I suspect with another training, a person can get better at driving while viewing the visual data on the right eye. From such an example, you could view both Desktops.

Yes, but you must keep in mind a few things. 1. When the Major did cyberjump while driving, she later came back and Bato yelled at her. He thought it was crazy that she was cyberjumping while driving. 2. Bato is also a cyborg, so you have to keep in mind that he must have some preconceived belief that it is impractical to cyberjump and drive at the same time. That's my argument. As such, however, Motoko may have generated the process of driving as a subconscious process while focusing her conscious being on the visual materials that existed in the cyber world. My guess is that while driving (workspace 1) one can have a visual window in workspace 1. I would equate that to driving while talking on a cell phone. I'm going to assume it would be able to divide the visual cortex between two visual spaces. With enough training it can be done. The problem with the human brain is the relation between visual focus and objects not within focus. Objects not within focus are often not as sharp as those in focus. However, if a person can form the ability to view and analyze those things not in focus while viewing what is in focus, then that person can multitask. I'm guessing what thinking would be possible. However, real world complications would arise. I would imagine that three workspaces would be open. One with the videofeed (workspace 2), another with the incoming driving data (workspace 1), and one to display both windows (workspace 3). Otherwise, there would be some serious subconscious activity going on if a person focused on workspace 2 instead of workspace 1.