Elementary functional units in movement sciences are referred to as motor primitives or synergies [9] [15] in different domains stressing distinct albeit associated aspects of motor control.
Can we reconstruct the pre-biotic peptides that gave rise to the elementary functional units of modern proteins?
Among other aspects, knowledge of the elementary functional units – transcription factor binding sites – is a prerequisite to understanding regulation of individual genes and their embedding into regulatory networks.
The underlying idea is that larger functional systems (e.g. metabolic pathways) require the presence of their components or elementary functional units (e.g. enzymatic steps) in order to be operative.
Its nervous system is mapped down to the individual synapse [10], and its neurons form simple functional units, similar to elementary network units found in higher animals [11].
Central to this endeavor is the theoretical construct of an elementary functional neuronal unit above the level of individual neurons and below that of whole brain areas and systems: the distributed neuronal assembly (DNA) or thought circuit (TC).
Modular architecture which encompasses groups of genes/proteins involved in elementary biological functional units is a basic form of the organization of interacting proteins.
The elementary modes consist of a minimal set of reactions that function at steady state, which implies that the elementary mode cannot be a functional unit if any reaction is removed [86].
The data collected using the direct observations protocol is divided into 59 actual dates of observation, which raised 2,537 descriptions of elementary behavioral (or functional) units of the White-breasted Thrasher.
Previously, we introduced the concept of elementary functional loops (EFLs), which are the functional units of enzymes that provide elementary reactions in biochemical transformations.
