I’m interested! I thought both words derive from Latin prosequi/persequi and had essentially the same meaning as modern English. Which language do you speak?
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Is that prosecuted or persecuted? Hmmm, actually both fit perfectly in your sentence
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Long COVID may be far more common than previously known, new Mass General Brigham study finds7·5 months agoThis has already been put to rest by the scientists, unsurprisingly.
It’s much more common among those who got covid without having had the vaccine (either on those who had covid before the vaccine, or those who didn’t take it).
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’22·7 months agoYou’re in the process of describing a Cybertruck, just the misfitting panel ‘teeth’ aren’t rotating
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Asked about cognitive ability, Trump brings up Harris' bar-exam results6·9 months agoSo a bunch of people who fail on their first attempt, and they pass the second (or third) time. So, of all people who eventually pass, 70-80% took the test twice or more.
Corollary: in any given exam, 20-50% of all exam takers are there for the second (or more) time. So the total number of first-timers is considerably less than 100% and I’m guessing that their failure rate is greater than 50%.
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die. In fact, it’s getting worse.5·11 months agoThat was one of the original proposed mechanisms to explain how the (obviously false) autism was caused.
But since then, since thiomersal was removed, other ‘causes’ and moral issues have been invented, including cells from abortions.
The one that makes me laugh the most is that it’s terrible that the poor poor baby is exposed to so many illnesses (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, notovirus, rotovirus and more) in such a short space of time, it’s no wonder the poor dear’s immune system is compromised. And then the same mother drops the kid off at daycare and exposes the poor dear to all those viruses and more - and live viruses at that.
There is no bleeding logic, just feels. And they get so angry at the fake harm that medicine is causing, and simultaneously actually causing real harms to real people.
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism5·1 year agoSorry for taking a long time to reply.
with plain old binary fission cell division, how do you get both to divide at the same time, and give each cell one of the new organelles?
An excellent question! Luckily it was answered in the paper. The researchers actually had a high resolution soft x-ray movie of cell division (ok, an exaggeration, they had a few micrographs showing the sequence). In the sequence, it showed how the organelles (including the novel N2 fixation one) undergoing division and each ‘child’ organelle ending up in different halves.
Cell division is controlled in the cell by an amazing process:
- 2 centres are created on opposite sides of the cell
- Structures like tethers are built that connect each centre to each of the organelles (the nucleus, mitochondria and the N2 fixators). These are called microtubules
- The microtubules then start shortening, pulling the organelles in two directions, separating them.
The x-ray micrographs show that the N2 fixators are already integrated into this mitosis mechanism - my guess is that the N2 fixators already ‘understand’ the parent cell’s mitosis signaling.
The authors also say that the organelles have lost a number of genes for essential cellular functions, relying on the parent cell to provide those capabilities. By comparison, mitochondria have only 37 genes left, and chloroplasts weren’t known for having any DNA when I was at school, but are now known to have about 110 genes.
In other words, a lot of evolution has already occurred and they are well on the way to being ‘proper’ organelles.
modeler@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism2·1 year agoan extreme change like this can’t be selected for
I think you mean that the initial bit - where the smaller bacterium is swallowed but stays alive in its host - is the “can’t be selected for”. After this, if the chimera survives, then most definitely the natural selection process is in action and selection is taking place.
No toilet rules me - my alone time is ungovernable!
But the last thing I need is a spring loaded giant fish, especially in my toilet.