Random Analogies
The Collagen Grocery Bag?
a: Collagen ~
b: a paper bag
What: "Imagine it this way: collagen is like a paper bag and the fat is like the groceries inside the bag. If the bag gets damaged, wet, or is just too thin, all the groceries can spill out-- including, of course, the cottage cheese."
Useful?
Writer: Ben Greenfield
LCC: R
Where:
Date: Aug 12 2011 10:17 AM
# 1090 Critique Analogy
Surouned In Protein
a: Capsid ~
b: a protein coat
What: "A capsid is like a protein coat. It protects the genes of the virus. Some have envelopes that surrounds the capsid so that it makes the virus look spherical. They also have a tail fiber that injects their DNA in the host cell."
Useful?
Writer: Tyler
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Date: May 1 2013 9:57 AM
# 2829 Critique Analogy
Cells As Fusing Bubbles.....
a: Cell fusion ~
b: 2 soap bubbles coming together
What: "Cell fusion fusion is like the coalesce of 2 soap bubbles into one bigger bubble". From page 165 of the linked text.
Useful?
Writer: Arnold Glazier, MD
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Where:
Date: May 2 2013 11:17 AM
# 2872 Critique Analogy
a: Graphene ~
b: a sheet of chicken wire
What:
"Graphene is like a sheet of chicken wire made of carbon atoms. These guys have drilled holes of various diameters through just such a sheet using an electron beam to smash carbon atoms out of the structure. "
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Sep 10 2014 1:20 PM
# 6267 Critique Analogy
