amino acid
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Except They Are Not Round.......
a: Amino acid ~
b: pearl
What: "Each amino acid is like an individual pearl; strung together, they form a protein." Or in the case of jewelery they form a pearl necklace.
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Date: Apr 30 2013 2:20 PM
# 2819 Critique Analogy
When Making Proteins
a: Amino acid ~
b: the chemical alphabet soup making protein
What: Alphabet soup is an okay association for amino acids in your body. There are about 20, depending on how you count. The individual letters in this soup, can can be joined together to build structural proteins such as collagen. The protein have a "spelling" if you like. In that there are particular sequences that build specific proteins like there are specific letters that used to make specific words with specific meanings. But the amino acid can also be for energy production. It depends on the physiological state of the organism and cell in question.
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Writer: Lucretia
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Date: Apr 30 2013 2:29 PM
# 2820 Critique Analogy
It Can Go 2 Ways
a: Amino acid ~
b: a potential food and a buiding block in one
What: Amino acids can do many things. There about 20 essential ones that can are the monomer units that make up proteins. Some amino acids are the precursors to a variety hormones and neurotransmitters. And they can be stripped of the amino groups and shunted into the energy producing pathways of the cell. That's a lot of mileage form a single class of molecules. So what is this like? I'm not sure.
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Writer: Lucretia
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Date: Apr 30 2013 2:32 PM
# 2821 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.