Although we can specify the DNA sequence to make a particular protein, we cannot always predict what the protein will look like or how it will interact with other proteins in the cell.
Even the most experienced entrepreneurs cannot always predict what will work and what won't.
But the Fed cannot always predict how stock investors will react to a change in short-term rates.
Other, more experienced, internet hands say that that's the deal with free comment: editors cannot always predict the blogs readers like.
Also, in line with the principles of dynamic systems, EFL learners' general or trait anxiety cannot always predict their level of anxiety patterns.
The prophylactic mesenteric revascularization should have been performed before acute exacerbation to avoid unnecessary broad resection of the intestine because we cannot always predict the acute exacerbation of CMI by standard modalities.
The U.S. National Research Council put the new biotechnology in perspective in a 1989 analysis: "With classical techniques of gene transfer, a variable number of genes can be transferred, the number depending on the mechanism of transfer; but predicting the precise number or the traits that have been transferred is difficult, and we cannot always predict the [characteristics] that will result.
A caveat, however, is that we cannot always predict the effect of a variant on the human phenotype from the experiments in model organisms.
Thus, the effects of estrogens administered alone cannot always predict their effects in complex environmental mixtures, and these interactive effects have far-reaching implications for the use of some biomarkers (such as EROD) in environmental monitoring.
These are sobering findings following the initial excitement regarding these two genes, and they emphasize that one cannot always predict what the correlates of common genetic polymorphisms will be from knowledge of the effects of a pathological mutation affecting the same genes.
