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Topic: Assimilation (biology)

	Park and Burgess - Competition, Conflict, Accommodation, Assimilation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Assimilation is a process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitudes of other persons or groups, and, by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life.
		In assimilation the process is typically unconscious; the person is incorporated into the common life of the group before he is aware and with little conception of the course of events which brought this incorporation about.
		Assimilation naturally takes place most rapidly where contacts are primary, that is, where they are the most intimate and intense, as in the area of touch relationship, in the family circle and in intimate congenial groups.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Park/COMPCONF.HTML (4337 words)

	Lake Forest College > Academics > Biology > Course Descriptions
		Biology 120, one of the core Biology Inquiry courses(130-139), 220, and 221 make up a core sequence in general biology for students pursuing the major or minor in biology.
		Majors in biology are required to choose three 300-level courses (two or three for minors) from at least two of the three subject areas: cellular and molecular biology (320, 322, 324, 340, 346, 352), organismal biology (340, 342, 346, 348), and ecology and evolution (344, 370, 375, 380, 384, 389).
		Senior thesis students are expected to enroll in Biology 492 in the fall semester and in Biology 494 (Senior Thesis) in the spring semester of their senior year.
	www.lakeforest.edu /academics/programs/BIOL/course.asp (3381 words)

	Department of Biology at Colorado State University
		We use genetics together with whole plant physiology, cell and molecular biology and biochemistry in the model plant Arabidopsis to unravel the regulation of copper delivery and the assembly of iron-sulfur clusters in proteins.
		This field is playing an increasingly central role in biology, from inferring the diversification of multigene families, to tracking invasive species, conservation of protected species, as evidence in criminal investigations, and fighting bioterrorism.
		Recombination nodules (RNs) are ellipsoidal particles lying on the central element of the synaptonemal complex (SC) during zygotene and pachytene of meiosis in eukaryotic organisms.
	rydberg.biology.colostate.edu /faculty/faculty.php (1396 words)

	Stanley E. Stevens, Ph.D., Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Microbial genetics and molecular biology are used to understand photosynthetic light absorption and nitrogen assimilation, especially nitrogen fixation, in cyanobacteria.
		Identification of a mutation in nitrate assimilation in the cyanobacterium Agmenellum quadruplicatum, strain AQ-6.
		The glnA gene of the cyanobacterium Agmenellum quadruplicatum PR-6 is nonessential for ammonium assimilation.
	biology.memphis.edu /stevens.htm (3749 words)

	Weber, A; Faculty Plant Biology Department at Michigan State Unversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The assimilation of ammonia in plastids is dependent on an organic precursor molecule — 2-oxoglutarate.
		Simplified scheme of the biosynthetic pathway of 2-oxoglutarate and its transport in to plastids by DiT1.
		Transient starch is degraded during the dark period to provide plant metabolism with carbohydrates in the absence of photosynthesis.
	www.plantbiology.msu.edu /weber.shtml (1278 words)

	OVERVIEW OF DATA ASSIMILATION
		In both cases the purposes of data assimilation were to provide a predictive capability; to control loss of predictability; and to infer basic underlying dynamical processes.
		The "gentle" assimilation of the spatially dense global OTIS data was necessary for the model to remain on track during the three months period.
		Data assimilation must be anticipated both to accelerate research progress is complex, modern multiscale interdisciplinary ocean science, and to enable marine technology and maritime operations otherwise not possible.
	people.deas.harvard.edu /~robinson/PAPERS/red_report_62.html (6505 words)

	Piaget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Assimilation is not the process of passively registering a copy of reality, nor is it an association between some environmental stimulus and response (S-R).
		In fact, assimilation theoretically does not result in change of schemes, but it does affect the growth of schemes and is thus a part of development.
		When a child tries to assimilate a new word, object, fact, experience, or feeling into existing schemes, and non see appropriate, the information may be forced (incorrectly by adult standard) into an existing scheme (assimilation), a scheme may be modified to handle the information (accommodation), or a new scheme may be started (accommodation).
	www2.educ.ksu.edu /mcgrath/Spring00/JP.html (3005 words)

	Department of Biology: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The traits were highly repeatable: the intraclass correlation coefficient for three trials at -10 C was greater than 0.7 for absolute values and greater than 0.6 for values independent of the initial body mass (residuals from ANCOVA).
		The estimate of repeatability of the mass-independent traits depends on which estimate of body mass (initial or after cold exposure) is used as a covariate in the regression or ANCOVA model.
		We conclude that the values of maximum cold-induced food consumption and energy assimilation are reliable estimates of the performance of individuals under a specific set of environmental conditions (low ambient temperature, but not limited access to food) and hence may be subject to phenotypic natural or artificial selection.
	www.biology.ucr.edu /people/faculty/Garland/76Abs.html (190 words)

	GMAO - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Assimilation tools are developed to optimize the use of the high resolution information from satellite observations and diagnose their impact on predictions of both weather and climate.
		The DAO pioneered efforts in the assimilation of scatterometer data, satellite precipitation observations, ozone measurements, and polar winds.
		A major application will be modeling and assimilation studies of the global carbon budget and estimates of North-American contributions to carbon sources and sinks, through involvement with national activities such as the North American Carbon Program and international collaborations.
	dao.gsfc.nasa.gov /overview.php (1023 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When children and adults assimilate, they use mental schema, in an attempt to adapt to a new situation.
		Assimilation and accommodation and gain and alteration of schema reside within a person and were seen as evident in what the child was capable of reasoning through and the child’s thinking out loud.
		Both biology and assimilation/accommodation still fall within the organismic paradigm, as both originate in the child.
	academic.evergreen.edu /k/kimhea17/seminar.htm (3558 words)

	PMEL CO2: Collaboration with GFDL
		We are aware that data assimilation is not a "cure all" for ill-posed models, but we feel that some sort of assimilation approach can take advantage of the strengths of both techniques.
		At present, the candidate data assimilation models for the second phase of our can be broken up into the ones that produce estimates of transport and those produce estimates of biology.
		The alternative transport assimilation model being worked by the GFDL group has a slightly more rigorous approach which attempts to fit the data by assuming either that there are model parameters, such as viscosity, that are adjustable or model forcing functions, such as wind speed, that are adjustable.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /co2/gfdl.html (1222 words)

	The International Baccalureate Program
		The IGCSE Biology is a two year course which involves a range of studies.
		The IBS Biology course is a 2 year course that is broken down into 8 quarters.
		After that, they revise for their IB exam towards the end of the school year and after that, they learn further biology which includes growth patterns, how life originated, selective breeding of animals and plants, viruses and ATP and energy release.
	www.icarda.cgiar.org /icardaschool/content/highBIOLIGY.html (526 words)

	Evolution, Learning, and Instinct: 100 Years of the Baldwin Effect
		Genetic assimilation is facilitated by using a fitness function that incorporates the cost of local search and by allowing the genotype to have some control over the amount of local search.
		If there is no cost for learning, genetic assimilation will halt, with a residual amount of unassimilated learning, when the population has evolved to the point where every individual can reliably learn to reach the optimum fitness level.
		For complete genetic assimilation, it must also be possible to evolve a genome that encodes a phenome that behaves optimally without learning.
	www.apperceptual.com /baldwin-editorial.html (2080 words)

	YG-CV
		As the major pathway by which marine phytoplankton acquires N from environment, nitrate assimilation was investigated by targeting a key component, nitrate reductase (NR), in the pathway.
		Environmental impacts on the initial events in nitrate assimilation (nitrate transport and reduction) were investigated by monitoring NR activities, NR protein abundance and internal nitrate levels determined by a rapid method developed in this research.
		It was also demonstrated that ammonium inhibition of nitrate assimilation is at the level of nitrate transport rather than nitrate reduction and that ammonium and nitrate assimilation can occur concomitantly providing that internal nitrate pools are adequate.
	marine.rutgers.edu /mrs/optics/people/alice.html (2210 words)

	Division of Biology
		The Division of Biology thus commits a lot of resources (two full-time faculty members and two GTAs) for each of the 8 -10 sections every semester (as well as one section in the summer semester).
		Biology faculty members annually win teaching awards in the College of Arts and Sciences, and regularly at the University level.
		Less than half of the teaching assistants in Biology are supported by the state of Kansas (the rest are supported by research grants to individual faculty members).
	www.ksu.edu /biology/pob/BIOL198FAQ.htm (6892 words)

	CMS Student Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Assimilation of DMSP is estimated to supply 1-15% of the total bacterial carbon demand and nearly all of the bacterial sulfur demand in the surface waters of the ocean.
		The capacity to assimilate DMSP into biomass or hydrolyze it to form DMS is not uniformly distributed among bacteria, so the composition of marine communities could impact the fate of DMSP.
		Assimilation of polysaccharides and glucose by major bacterial groups in the Delaware Estuary.
	www.ocean.udel.edu /students/rmalmstrom (520 words)

	Biology International
		The most important shortcoming of this energetic approach in its simplest form is the assumption that the amount of energy assimilated by an individual in a unit of time is immediately used for sustaining its life functions.
		There is a time lag between assimilation of a given portion of energy and its utilisation for growth, reproduction or other functions.
		In other words the same energy portion which is assimilated in a given time instant is not at the same time used for cost of life, for instant to cover the cost of finding and processing the assimilated energy.
	www.iubs.org /test/bioint/44/4.htm (4415 words)

	College of Science & Engineering: Biology Department-course descriptions1
		Basic concepts in cell biology, genetics, plant taxonomy/identification, plant anatomy, and plant physiology typical of Introductory Biology for non-majors will be covered.
		Basic concepts in cell biology, genetics, plant taxonomy/identification, plant anatomy, and plant physiology typical of Introductory Biology for non-majors courses will be covered.
		An introduction to the science of biological evolution, from the history of evolutionary thought to the concepts of modern evolutionary theory.
	www.usi.edu /science/biology/courses.asp (688 words)

	Species 8472 - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		In their search for further species worthy of assimilation, the Borg first encountered Species 8472 after they found a way to enter fluidic space in the 2370s.
		However, Species 8472 turned out to be immune to the Borg's assimilation attempts and the invasion of their realm provoked a war, which quickly evolved into the first real threat the Borg had faced in thousands of years.
		Its hull is resistant to conventional weaponry, including Borg assimilation, and also reflects sensor scans and tractor beams.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Species_8472 (1133 words)

	BIOLOGY
		BIOL 100 Introductory Biology (5) NW Develops an awareness of science by studying basic biological principles and their application to problems of humans and society in the contexts of special topics or themes, which vary quarter to quarter.
		BIOL 311 Biology of Fishes (3/5) NW Lecture and laboratory, of the morphological, physiological, behavioral, and ecological diversity of fishes of the world; designed to provide a basic foundation for advanced courses in all areas of finfish fisheries.
		BIOL 446 Biology of Algae (5) NW Cattolico, Waaland
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/biology.html (5969 words)

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		The Borg may have possessed this ‘instant’ assimilation technology during the period when ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ took place, or may have acquired it later.
		The Borg from ‘Unity’ were at least partly made up of individuals assimilated during Borg incursions into the Alpha quadrant.
		The assimilation of the Federation, and various other familiar alien species, may simply not be much of a priority for the Borg.
	members.aol.com /DJUniverse/review.html (1215 words)

	Pottsville Area High School - Science
		This course is designed for students desiring preparation for college biology and also fulfilling a lab course requirement for college admittance.
		It is not recommended for college bound students and cannot be used as a prerequisite for Advanced Biology, AP Biology, Chemistry (431), and Human Physiology.
		Fresh Water Biology is the study of organisms found in a freshwater ecosystem and their relationships to other organisms and their environment.
	www.pottsville.k12.pa.us /pahs/curriculum/science.html (1590 words)

	Phenotypic plasticity and evolution by genetic assimilation -- Pigliucci et al. 209 (12): 2362 -- Journal of ...
		by the biochemistry, physiology or developmental biology of
		assimilating) it by altering the shape of the reaction norm.
		of traits correlated to the one being assimilated because –
	jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/209/12/2362 (3588 words)

	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Molybdenum-containing enzymes are critical to a variety of important biological processes, including inorganic nitrogen fixation and assimilation, sulfite detoxification and purine catabolism in bacteria, plants and mammals.
		Molybdenum is commonly coordinated to the proteins via a substituted pterin cofactor (Mo-pterin), in addition, the majority of Mo-proteins contain additional prosthetic groups such as flavin, heme or Fe/S clusters and catalyze reactions that require both intra- and intermolecular electron transfer reactions.
		The focus of the laboratory is to combine molecular biological and biophysical methods to probe the structure and function of several Mo-proteins including plant assimilatory nitrate reductase and bacterial biotin sulfoxide reductase.
	hsc.usf.edu /medicine/biochemistry/barberres.html (951 words)

	About GMAO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) was formed from the Data Assimilation Office (DAO), which focused on atmospheric modeling and data assimilation, and the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP), which focused on coupled (ocean-atmosphere-land-surface) climate modeling and prediction and on ocean and land data assimilation.
		Our goal is to undertake modeling and assimilation as components of an end-to-end process, from defining an instrument, characterizing its in-flight performance, through to the development of algorithms and forward models for data assimilation, integrating the data into assimilation products, and finally assessing the impact of the data on the products of the assimilation system.
		To realize their potential as integrators of the cross-cutting themes of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, our models and assimilation systems represent a wide range of time scales, from high resolution weather, to short-term climate, to long-term climate, and must eventually couple the interactive components of physical climate with biogeochemistry.
	dao.gsfc.nasa.gov /aboutgmao.php (266 words)

	Diachronic Biology Meets Evo-Devo: C. H. Waddington's Approach to Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- Gilbert 40 (5): ...
		a "diachronic biology." In this diachronic biology, evolutionary
		Matsuda's use of organic selection (Baldwin), genetic assimilation (Waddington), and autonomization (Schmalhausen) in his theory of the genetic fixation of endocrine-mediated environmental effects.
		Waddington, C. The genetic basis of the assimilated bithorax stock.
	icb.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/40/5/729 (3457 words)

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		A region or society where assimilation is occurring is sometimes referred to...
		Assimilation may be voluntary, which is usually the case with immigrants,...
		Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid...
	www.howstuffworks.com /search2.php?pg=&server=www.howstuffworks.com&terms=assimilation (112 words)

	Pharyngula::Symmetry breaking and genetic assimilation
		The second leg of route b corresponds to genetic assimilation because a conspicuous phenotype (e.g., dextral) that is not heritable is replaced evolutionarily by one that is. Notably, if no antisymmetric species occur within a clade, either living or as fossils, then genetic assimilation cannot be inferred.
		However, genetic assimilation is going to be typically undercounted for reasons I've already mentioned, so occurrence in half of the cases is almost certainly going to be an underestimate.
		The idea is that the heart initially exhibited antisymmetry, and that the mechanism of genetic assimilation involved the independent recruitment of a core brain pathway to add a layer of genetic control to the process.
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/symmetry_breaking_and_genetic_assimilation (2945 words)

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