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Of the two major products of the gene (proteins and microRNAs) it is the protein that is the functional unit of biology. A combinatorial association of 20 amino acids in linear chains of up to 30,000 residues generates, or can generate in theory, many more proteins than there are stars in our universe. The protein molecule can be chemically active, in the form of an enzyme, whose catalytic effect can speed up chemical reactions by a thousand- to a million-fold. It can be a structural component acting as a tissue support or allowing the transmission of force. It can function as a binding...

Occasionally in life, fate places something or someone on your path, and your life is blessed in a way that you never could have predicted. Chloe's Dogma is one of those stories; the meeting of two people with a dog named Chloe. In her adventures, Chloe survives a series of near misses - overcoming adversity and neglect along the way to finding her forever family. In the time since Brian Nichols and Andrew Evans decided to bring her home, Chloe has taught them many of life's most important lessons. They started talking about what life advice Chloe might give, and the result of those...

This major international anthology provides students and the general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a powerful vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement: international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in imaginative vision and practice. It celebrates risk, resistance, protest and diversity within poetry, reaching across national and cultural boundaries.