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What: What is Catholicism? It is a mixture of many intellectual and political themes over the last 1700 or 2000 years, depending on how you count it. The 2 major ingredients are a Roman governing structure and a Jewish moral sensibility. In practice it ends up being like Italian Salad dressing, that is 2 incompatible phases, oil and water. The 2 major elements are Roman authoritarianism and Jewish asceticism. Think about it; Catholicism is rich, Roman and very authority driven. It is Italianized Christianity. At its heart it's an Italian institution that's conjoined with the teachings an ascetic Jew who ran around in the desert with very little to his name. Did Jesus live in a Baroque palace? How can these 2 traditions coexist in the same institution?

Writer: LucretiaGermanica

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Date: Jun 28 2010 2:40 AM

What: "Actin is like a pair of pearl necklaces twisted around eachother. The Tropomyosin is like a cable lying alongside the necklaces (covering binding sites for myosin)."

Writer: ford_dangerfield

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Date: Apr 30 2013 9:41 AM

What: Amino acid polymers, proteins, are long stringy affairs that have complex 3-d structures. They are held together , in part, by bonding to themselves. One type of internal bond, a covalent bond, is a disulphide bond. It keeps the protein from flopping around and loosing it's shape. This is somewhat like handcuffs that keep a prisoners' arms and hands from moving around. And to push this analogy a bit, key to this lock-bond can be B-mercaptoethanol. BME , as it's known, is a powerful reducing agent that breaks the disulphide bond, opening the handcuffs as it were.

Writer: Lucretia

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Date: May 6 2013 10:45 AM

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""Hardy-weinberg" is like a swear word around here.IT NEVER HAPPENS! WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW "

Writer: weirdbuglady

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Date: Feb 2 2015 10:46 AM