| A major but defining difference between polymers and biopolymers can be found in their structures. Polymers, including biopolymers, are made of repetitive units called monomers. Biopolymers inherently have a well defined structure: The exact chemical composition and the sequence in which these units are arranged is called the primary structure. Many biopolymers spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes (see also "protein folding" as well as secondary structure and tertiary structure), which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures. Structural biology is the study of the structural properties of the biopolymers. In contrast most synthetic polymers have much simpler and more random (or statistic) structures. This fact leads to a molecular mass distribution that is missing in biopolymers. In fact, as their synthesis is controlled by a template directed process in most in vivo systems all biopolymers of a type (say one specific protein) are all alike: they all contain the same sequence and number of monomers and thus all have the same mass. This phenomenon is called monodispersity in contrast to the polydispersity encountered in polymers. As a result biopolymers have a polydispersity index of 1. Answers.com |
Aether Research In Greek, 'Aithen' means to burn or shine The word 'aethere' was used by Romans and Greeks to mean the upper air which they regarded as pure and connected to a Sun that was driven through this aethere across the sky during the day, hence the relation to shining and burning (thus luminiferous Aether is nothing more than a distributed physical medium permeating the entire universe, endowing it [space] with measurable physical qualities H. A. Lorentz formulated an aether based version of special relativity, known as Lorentz Ether Theory MATTER IS MADE OF WAVES " The material Universe is solely made out of Aether "  The Greek derived word Aether is defined in the Webster Universal Dictionary as a: "hypothetical medium, supposed to fill space, by means of vibrations in which light and other forms of radiation are transmitted". Up until the latter part of the last century the 'Ether' theory was an established scientific fact. The Fundamental Discovery of How Shape Modifies Undifferentiated Universal Aether Into Electricity, Magnetism, and Nuclear Forces |
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