Express Academic Writing-week 2
Express Academic Writing-week 2
5 Reading Diary- week 2 terms
- Crosstalk
- Verb
- unwanted transfer of signals between communication channels.
- Example: Be alert to the possibility of change to cross-talk between four people, which is much more difficult for the speechreader.
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- Homeostasis
- Noun
- the tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes
- Example: Homeostasis is present in all life, helping to stabilize and sustain an organisms' functions, regardless of changing outside circumstances.
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- Proliferate
- Verb
- (of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly.
- Example: cultured cells often proliferate indefinitely
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- Stem cells
- Noun
- cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated
- Example: Opponents say the use of embryonic stem cells would encourage abortions.
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- Transcription
- Verb
- The process of transcribing RNA, with existing DNA serving as a template, or vice versa.
- Example: In transcription, the codons of a gene are copied into messenger RNA by RNA polymerase.
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