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  1. I'm actually unsure whether the Supreme Court refusing to hear it because they think a lower court's decision was right makes it apply to the whole country or just that lower court's area. Anyone know?

     

    Mokele

     

     

    The supreme court is soon to be filled with conservatives, why do think the republican party is workin his butt off to get another evangelist on the board?

  2. Why we need a gene to manufacture vitamin C in the first place? it's abundant as it is.

     

    Remember any gene that produces protein which isn't beneficial to the body is considered useless, and would either 1. become silenced or 2. weeded out by natural selection

     

    What would happen if our genes allowed us to make Vita. C in today's world? probably nothing, unless you live in Africa or frequently traversed the seas

  3. keep editing your posts. If you refuse to even read the posts of others, let alone implement proper grammar, I don't think you can build much of a case.

     

    If you are going to ask a question, ask a question that can be at least somewhat answered or so we know what you are talking about.

     

    Also, I wasn't calling all of us idiots. I'm going to stop responding so it doesn't become a flame fest

  4. interspecies breeding is usually rare animals, but not so rare in plants, the process is known as hybridization. However, fertile plants can only be produced if the chromosome set is a multiple of 2, eg tetraploids, diploids. However, if its an odd #, then it is possible for the plants to asexually re-produce (ie kariba weed).

    As to the exact mechanisms, I've no clue.

  5. someone ban all these idiots

     

    also, I refuse to read an article that's not from a peer-reviewed journal especially when it comes to claiming us closer to a dystopian society. Secondly gene cloning has almost no relevance to that link.

     

    Thirdly, that link is a perfect example of bastardization of science with a creationist approach. Ok so it's been proven in monkeys, but monkeys have an IQ of about a 5 year old. You seriously can't expect there to be a correlation.

     

     

    Remember that it is not the scientists that ultimately ****s up the world, it is the politicians

  6. well, one reason is that more genes = more energy required for mitosis.

     

    but if the alterations exist, natural selection would select on the beneficial alterations just as it selects inherited genetic traits

  7. Just a thought, why is it that we can't change our somatic DNA? I find it strange sometimes that after a few billion years of eukaryotic multi-cellular evolution we haven't been able to modify our somatic genes. does anyone know of organisms that can actually change its somatic DNA half-way through its development aside from mutations?

  8. Holy crap I love Canada's cheap drugs!

     

    Now I just need to figure out how to actually apply it in the right way to cause polyploidy in my plants. It'll probably be easier to use it to cause polyploidy in asexually propagated cuttings than in flowers and such' date=' I'm guessing, but I'll google around.

     

    Bwahahahaha! You shall have your own personal army of monster Flytraps for this![/quote']

     

    What are the conditions needed to grow Flytraps?

     

    Temperature? pH? soil conditions? etc. etc?

  9. You have to understand that most of the human being in this world is shortsighted.

    I've heard that male's DNA set is degenerating because of the Y-chromosome' date=' though I'm not sure that is that true, but if this's true, women in the future may need to clone themseleves to maintain the existence of human being, however, cloning human is not allowed today(if we practise now, we may know more about that and the possibility of sucessful clones will become higher and higher). That's just like modiflying huamns.[/quote']

     

    What's wrong with being shortsighted, altruism is a dead art anyways.

     

    Why would women need to clone themselves? Cloning in it self doesn't have much a of therapeutic purpose unless your attempting to derive ESCs, which once again thanks to MHCs, would only work on the person who wanted the clone.

  10. acidity22sr.jpg

     

    Using the same logic as hydroxyls having a terrible leaving group, (why is it a bad leaving group? if the H+ left, then oxygen would be O-, but i read somewhere that electronegative atoms didn't really mind having a negative charge)

     

    Mol 3 would be the strongest acid... then how do you determine whether mol II or I is stronger?

  11. shoot you're right about the carboanion, oopsies.

     

    so for mol III., the carbocation is responsible for the high suspectibility to nucleophilic attack/eliminations?

     

    as for the last comment, if its already resonance stabilized, then how does the SP^2 contribute to its acidity?

  12. for Q1 are you asking for chirality centers?

     

    For Q2 I think it depends on the isomer,

     

    I don't think the optical rotations are the same for a trans-isomers as opposed to a cis-isomer. They are diastereisomers. If the cis-isomer is achiral, then you wouldn't get any optical activity. But if the trans is chiral, then you would. So i guess thats your answer. (Btw is there such a thing as an achiral trans isomer with a chiral cis isomer?)

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