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  2. Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    The pygmy mammoth is an example of insular dwarfism, a case of Foster's rule, its unusually small body size an adaptation to the limited resources of its island home.. A biological rule or biological law is a generalized law, principle, or rule of thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms.

  3. Complementation (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    These rules (patterns) are not without exceptions. Non-allelic mutants may occasionally fail to complement (this is known as "non-allelic non-complementation" or "unlinked non-complementation"). This is an uncommon occurrence that depends on the type of mutants being investigated. Two mutations, for example, could be synthetically dominant ...

  4. Complementarity (molecular biology) - Wikipedia

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    Purines are larger than pyrimidines. Both types of molecules complement each other and can only base pair with the opposing type of nucleobase. In nucleic acid, nucleobases are held together by hydrogen bonding, which only works efficiently between adenine and thymine and between guanine and cytosine. The base complement A = T shares two ...

  5. Category:Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    Biological rules describe patterns of variation within and across species most often in regard to size. While they are described as rules there are often many exceptions to them. While they are described as rules there are often many exceptions to them.

  6. Complement system - Wikipedia

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    The complement system, also known as complement cascade, is a part of the humoral, innate immune system and enhances (complements) the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear microbes and damaged cells from an organism, promote inflammation, and attack the pathogen's cell membrane. [1]

  7. C1 complex - Wikipedia

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    Activation of the C1 complex initiates the classical complement pathway. This occurs when C1q binds to antigen-antibody complexes. The antibodies IgM or certain subclasses of IgG complexed with antigens are able to initiate the complement system: a single pentameric IgM can initiate the pathway, while several monomeric IgG molecules are needed. [3]

  8. Offset (botany) - Wikipedia

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    In botany and horticulture, an offset (also called a pup, mainly in the US, [1]) is a small, virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally and asexually produced on the mother plant. They are clones , meaning that they are genetically identical to the mother plant.

  9. Signed number representations - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, ones' complement and two's complement representations of the same negative value will differ by one. Note that the ones' complement representation of a negative number can be obtained from the sign–magnitude representation merely by bitwise complementing the magnitude (inverting all the bits after the first). For example, the ...