Random Analogies
Glucose Metabolisim
a: Trying to burn glucose without insulin ~
b: trying to set fire to a pile of logs without a match
What: "Insulin is essential to the metabolic process. Trying to burn glucose without insulin is like trying to set fire to a pile of logs without a match. It can't be done."
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Writer: Not Stated
LCC: QP
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Date: Jul 26 2010 8:14 AM
# 534 Critique Analogy
a: Gravity ~
b: ketchup
Reproduction Genetics....
a: Each genotype ~
b: a coin with 2 sides
What: "Each genotype is like a coin with 2 sides, so when Mr. and Mrs. Mouse get together to make a baby, its like flipping one coin for each of their genotypes. Mr. Mouse's coin might come up normal or vampire. Mrs. Mouse's coin might come up normal or vampire. If one or either or both are normal, so is the kid. But if both come up vampire, then that kid is ... vampiric."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 7 2013 7:02 PM
# 2999 Critique Analogy
The Red Cells Are Coming.....
a: Interferon ~
b: the Paul Revere of the cell
What: "Interferons "are like the Paul Revere of the cell," says Dale Barnard, a professor of microbiology at Utah State University. Once a virus has taken over a cell and starts to make double-stranded RNA or a DNA/RNA hybrid, the defeated human cell begins to make interferons. Interferons then leave the cell and bind to neighboring uninfected cells, triggering the production of antiviral proteins. "Interferon is the warning messenger,"
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Writer: Dale Barnard
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Date: May 9 2013 7:11 PM
# 3044 Critique Analogy
