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  • Carotene is also the precursor to vitamin A in animals. Although several ... ===Beta-carotene is a precursor to vitamin A in animals=== ...
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  • On the other hand, HCN is a highly valuable precursor for the synthesis ... of life, in terms of being a possible precursor to amino acids and nucleic ...
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  • (an estrogen), among others. It also is a precursor in the conversion to cortisol ... ===Synthesis and role as precursor=== Progesterone, like all other ...
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  • , whose function is to cleave off an extra, or precursor, sequence of RNA on tRNA molecules, resulting in conversion of a precursor tRNA into the active ...
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  • interpreted the Middle Ages as the precursor of Renaissance and described ... than of rebirth and optimism, a precursor of Renaissance. ...
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  • insecticide, a flux in metallurgy, and a precursor for other boron compounds. ... * precursor for sodium perborate monohydrate that is used in detergents ...
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  • components of cell membranes, as a precursor for the important neurotransmitter ... Choline is a precursor for synthesis of acetylcholine, which is a ...
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  • of one enantiomer from a racemic precursor molecule utilizing both enantiomers. ==Enantiopure medications== Advances in industrial chemical processes ...
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  • properties. The isotope curium-242 is the precursor to plutonium-238, the most ... for long-term use. Curium-242 is the precursor to plutonium-238, which ...
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  • In this regard, Kleist was a precursor to Romanticism. He had ... over the last two hundred years. He was a precursor of both modernism and postmodernism; ...
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  • and co-founded the Fabian Society, a precursor to the modern Labour Party ... they helped found the Fabian Society, a precursor to the Labour Party. They ...
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  • ==Precursor to the battle== After the Germans failed to achieve a quick victory in 1914, the war of movement soon bogged down into a stalemate ...
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  • subnot. in verba Juliani, praef) and the precursor of Nestorianism. The Council ... as a theologian, expositor, and a precursor of later exegetical principles. ...
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  • | Precursor = Metanephric blastema (intermediate mesoderm) ... | Precursor = | MeshName = | MeshNumber = | DorlandsPre = t_22 ...
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  • Precursor = chordamesoderm | GivesRiseTo = nucleus pulposus | MeshName = Notochord | MeshNumber = A16.254.610 | DorlandsPre = n_10 | ...
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  • unique type of glia, the oligodendrocyte precursor cells or OPCs, have very ... Only the resident oligodendrocyte precursor cells seem to keep this ...
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  • of "Negro History Week," the precursor of Black History Month ... The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United ...
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  • in the cell membranes of animals and serves as a precursor of important hormones and other substances. Cholesterol is the principal sterol in all vertebrate ...
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  • of their colony. This protest was to be a precursor to the much more violent ... html Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism ...
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  • phenylalanine in the human body, and is a precursor of such important chemical ... Tyrosine is also precursor to the thyroid hormones thyroxine and triiodothyronine ...
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  • is converted into L-DOPA, the metabolic precursor of such other vitally important ... activity may be accounted for by the precursor role of L-phenylalanine ...
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  • in 1911. Some view him as a serial precursor, being ahead of many twentieth ... the idea that Satie had been a precursor of Debussy. At first Satie ...
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  • process to produce ethylbenzene, the precursor for styrene monomer. At present though, it is not widely used in any of these roles. ...
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  • the structure vary strongly between the precursor and the sintered product. ==Uses== Ferrite cores are used in electronic inductors, transformers ...
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  • structural characteristic. It is a precursor to the neurotransmitter ... In addition, tryptophan functions as a biochemical precursor for the ...
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  • joining the Scripps-McRae Press Association, a precursor to the United Press International. Cooper’s journalist innovations quickly caught the attention ...
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  • Max Ernst and other surrealists saw him as a precursor of their movement. Along with other romantic painters like J. M. W. Turner and John Constable ...
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  • use as the source of salicylic acid, the precursor to aspirin. ... because they contain salicylic acid, the precursor to aspirin. ...
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  • The xylophone is a precursor to the vibraphone, which was developed in the 1920s. ==Early appearances in orchestral scores== Ferdinand Kauer ...
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  • style of the King James Bible, was the major precursor for many modern poets writing free verse, though they were often reluctant to acknowledge his ...
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  • Islamic civilizations, the bazaar is the precursor for the modern day shopping ... still further. General stores were the precursor of modern convenience stores ...
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  • In botany, a seed plant embryo is part of a seed, consisting of precursor tissues for the leaves, stem, and root. Once the embryo begins to germinate—grow ...
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  • of Wealth (1831) can thus be regarded as a precursor of the English Historical School of economists such as Walter Bagehot and the Institutionalist ...
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  • James Reese Europe (1881-1991) was another important precursor to the formulation of Ragtime and Jazz. His Harlem Hellfighters Band and Clef ...
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  • a major public success and became "a precursor to the hold van Gogh has ... Precursor to the current hold of van Gogh in public imagination. Bernice ...
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  • during development (Browder 1996). The muscle precursor cells do not start to manufacture large quantities of muscle–specific proteins until days ...
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  • Raucher, Laura. "American Ballet Caravan was a precursor company to New York City Ballet…After the war, Balanchine and Kirstein founded ...
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  • Precursor = neural crest mesenchyme and third and fourth pharyngeal pouch endoderm | System = | Artery = superior thyroid artery ...
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  • trade across Panama were an early precursor to the development of the Panama Canal. He remains famous for his idea of the Darien Scheme, the Scottish ...
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  • Precursor = neural and oral ectoderm, including Rathke's pouch | System = | Artery = superior hypophyseal artery, infundibular artery, prechiasmal ...
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  • novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and ...
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  • with electric guitar distortion effects, the precursor of the "fuzz" tone now a standard feature for nearly all rock guitarists. ...
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  • they are used as indicators of protoliths (precursor rocks). The oldest minerals found so far are zircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss ...
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  • component (contains maturing ribosomal precursor particles) (Alberts et ... Transcription of the ribosomal gene yields a long precursor molecule ...
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  • the larger Unified Silla Kingdom that was the precursor to the later Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty Joseon Dynasties. Seongdeok's reign is recorded ...
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  • its extended violin solos was a precursor to his five violin concerti), the Gran Partita for 13 Wind Insturments (K. 361) and the wind Serenades ...
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  • Precursor = | System = | Artery = middle meningeal artery, meningeal branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery, accessory meningeal ...
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  • notably Lake Agassiz, the Pleistocene precursor to Lake Winnipeg and the ... Agassiz's death, but is considered a precursor of the Marine Biological ...
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  • As a precursor of Austrian economic theory, Cantillon was the first ... a circular flow diagram. His work was a precursor to national income accounting ...
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  • of it via the Arab world. Thus he served as a precursor for the reconciliation of science and religion through his call for academic development and ...
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