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  2. Vertical transmission - Wikipedia

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    Vertical transmission of symbionts is the transfer of a microbial symbiont from the parent directly to the offspring. [1] Many metazoan species carry symbiotic bacteria which play a mutualistic , commensal , or parasitic role. [ 1 ]

  3. Parabolic arch - Wikipedia

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    While a parabolic arch may resemble a catenary arch, a parabola is a quadratic function while a catenary is the hyperbolic cosine, cosh(x), a sum of two exponential functions. One parabola is f(x) = x 2 + 3x − 1, and hyperbolic cosine is cosh(x) = ⁠ e x + e −x / 2 ⁠. The curves are unrelated.

  4. Bacterial microcompartment - Wikipedia

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    This is an especially important consideration for introducing compartmentalization into difficult to engineer organisms like plants [99] [100] in plant synthetic biology. [100] [101] [99] More generally, because BMC shell proteins self-assemble, empty shells can be formed, [47] [102] prompting efforts to engineer them to contain customized cargo.

  5. Rotating locomotion in living systems - Wikipedia

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    The exception to this is the flagellum, the only known example of a freely rotating propulsive system in biology; in the evolution of flagella, individual components were recruited from older structures, where they performed tasks unrelated to propulsion. The basal body that is now the rotary motor, for instance, might have evolved from a ...

  6. Compressibility - Wikipedia

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    The particles in real materials interact with each other. Then, the relation between the pressure, density and temperature is known as the equation of state denoted by some function . The Van der Waals equation is an example of an equation of state for a realistic gas. = (,).

  7. Biophysics - Wikipedia

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    Quantum biology – The field of quantum biology applies quantum mechanics to biological objects and problems. Decohered isomers to yield time-dependent base substitutions. These studies imply applications in quantum computing. Agronomy and agriculture; Many biophysical techniques are unique to this field. Research efforts in biophysics are ...

  8. Compression (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Compression of solids has many implications in materials science, physics and structural engineering, for compression yields noticeable amounts of stress and tension. By inducing compression, mechanical properties such as compressive strength or modulus of elasticity , can be measured.

  9. Intervertebral disc - Wikipedia

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    An intervertebral disc (British English), also spelled intervertebral disk (American English), lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column.Each disc forms a fibrocartilaginous joint (a symphysis), to allow slight movement of the vertebrae, to act as a ligament to hold the vertebrae together, and to function as a shock absorber for the spine.