> -wrap-foot> The biological unit reference set contains the most likely biologically relevant oligomeric assembly generated by PISA (Krissinel and Henrick, 2007).
Firstly, it is biologically more meaningful, since the genotype as opposed to the allele is the biological unit characterizing an individual.
Or is it the irreversible loss of function of the organism (or cell) as a whole that is, as a meaningful and independent biological unit?
Hair and skin cells may also be studied in the biological unit, though that type of analysis is often grouped with the trace-evidence unit.
The genome refers to all the genes, including chromosome DNA, all forms of RNA, and transcriptional variants in a certain biological unit.
The biological unit of BSAO is a homodimer, formed by two monomers related to each other by a non-crystallographic 2-fold axis.
Until a better understanding of connectivity among these divergent populations is developed, each island should be considered an independent biological unit.
Models of rigid-body or short-range liquid-like motions, in which dynamics are confined to the biological unit, showed modest agreement with the diffuse maps, but were unable to reproduce experimental features indicative of long-range correlations.
Further analysis suggests that the intramolecular interactions are associated with crystal packing and the monomer should be the biological unit.
When the asymmetric unit was found to differ from the biological unit, the ligand binding site was carefully checked.
Carel argues that health should be understood phenomenologically as the experience of being at home in one's lived body, rather than merely the normal functioning of the body seen as a biological unit.
