Random Analogies
Using Insulin
a: Using insulin ~
b: ploughing the land before planting seeds
What: " Using insulin is like ploughing the land before planting seeds. Insulin helps achieve good glycemic control, and helps the antibiotics, antitubercular drugs and pain suppressants produce their effect in an efficient and time saving manner."----The linked article describes using analogies to explain how insulin works.......
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Writer: Sanjay Kalra DM
LCC: QP
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Date: Jan 11 2011 2:32 AM
# 760 Critique Analogy
The Oxygen Explosion.....
a: Photosynthesis ~
b: the Big Bang in evolution
What: "Photosynthesis is like the Big Bang in evolution", defends James Barber, one of the greatest worldwide experts in this matter. "Thanks to it we have evolution of life on Earth as we know it today".
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Writer: James Barber
LCC: QH
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Date: Dec 13 2012 1:03 PM
# 2598 Critique Analogy
a: Golgi apparatus ~
b: post office
What: "In a way the golgi apparatus is like the post office because they have to sort of the packages that were given to them by the people (or in the cell's case the ER). After recieving the packages, they have to rearrange them and make sure that the letters get to their appropiate address or destination."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Oct 24 2013 6:48 PM
# 4239 Critique Analogy
a: Radioactive decay ~
b: 100 zillion pennies in a cup
What:
"Similarly, radioactive decay is like beginning with 100 zillion pennies in a radioactive sample (radioactive isotope atoms) and continuously doing this experiment such that once a half-life, all "pennies" had a chance to flip "
See the link for a comparison of pennies in a cup and decaying atoms.
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Dec 10 2014 4:05 PM
# 6714 Critique Analogy
