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Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time. [ 1 ] In neurodegenerative diseases , cells of the central nervous system stop working or die via neurodegeneration .
In quantum mechanics, an energy level is degenerate if it corresponds to two or more different measurable states of a quantum system.Conversely, two or more different states of a quantum mechanical system are said to be degenerate if they give the same value of energy upon measurement.
Examples of degeneracy are found in the genetic code, when many different nucleotide sequences encode the same polypeptide; in protein folding, when different polypeptides fold to be structurally and functionally equivalent; in protein functions, when overlapping binding functions and similar catalytic specificities are observed; in metabolism, when multiple, parallel biosynthetic and ...
A less degenerate site would produce a nonsynonymous mutation on some of the substitutions. An example (and the only) 3-fold degenerate site is the third position of an isoleucine codon. AUU, AUC, or AUA all encode isoleucine, but AUG encodes methionine. In computation, this position is often treated as a twofold degenerate site.
Degeneration is deterioration in the medical sense.Generally, it is the change from a higher to a lower form. More specifically, it is the change of tissue to a lower or less functionally active form.
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The degenerate univariate distribution can be viewed as the limiting case of a continuous distribution whose variance goes to 0 causing the probability density function to be a delta function at k 0, with infinite height there but area equal to 1. [citation needed] The cumulative distribution function of the univariate degenerate distribution is: