Each is a criterion for death, because it marks the univocal state of death, the irreversible loss of the function of the organism as a whole.
The idea behind looking for significant motifs is evolutionary in nature: those motifs that are conducive to the function of the organism within its environment will be preferentially maintained over motifs that are either neutral in function or even detrimental.
Both proteins and metabolites are directly involved in the cellular biochemistry and thereby closely dictate the function of the organism [ 18].
Nonetheless, this study demonstrates that the movement of genes between primary (larger) and secondary (smaller) chromosomes alters their expression and almost certainly the function of the organism, which can in turn be shaped directly by selection.
Although predictions have been made in the past with approximations of the biomass function to that of E. coli, there are some major differences in fatty acid and amino acid composition that require experimental measurements to determine the drain of different metabolites and the cost of their production on the function of the organism.
Endocrine system, any of the systems found in animals for the production of hormones, substances that regulate the functioning of the organism.
He warned against the dominance of pathologic anatomy the study of the structure of diseased tissue alone as such and stressed that the future of pathology would be physiologic pathology study of the functioning of the organism in the investigation of disease.
Hence, much effort has been expended to characterize the pattern of nsSNPs in the context of sequences and structures of proteins in attempts establish whether they are likely to be neutral or deleterious for the functions of the organism [18] [20].
The perspective given here, which sees TEs as a systematic part of the organism's genome, encourages us to consider the possibility that at the origin of viruses were elements much more intertwined with the functioning of the organism.
For our study, we use the transcriptional regulatory network of yeast [ 43, 44] and apply our information theoretic measure to identify genes that are crucial for the functioning of the organism in the sense that disruptions of the transcriptional regulatory network are experienced strongest by these genes.
