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...called the "white" gene because, among many effects, it influences eye color, and a particular mutation in the gene causes a fly's normally red eyes to be white. The gene's specific job is to produce a protein that enables cells to utilize an essential amino acid called tryptophan. If fruit flies are unable to process tryptophan properly, then they cannot manufacture red eye pigment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCH FOR A GAY GENE | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time--as a "universal acid," eatingaway all attempts to limit its scope...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Book Champions Theory of Evolution | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Rando describes the "hell" of a crew race in a very matter of fact way: "It's sort of a blur of lactic acid and adrenaline. You start out very frantically...build up close to maximum lactic acid build-up and try to hold," Rando says...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Students Shoot For Olympics | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...approximately 11 a.m....nitric acid and ethanol were inadvertently combined and the solution splattered on them," according to a Harvard Medical School press release...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Chemical Accident In Med. Lab Injures Two | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...mixture of nitric acid and ethanol creates fumes which are a corrosive irritant. Nitric acid, a strong caustic acid, tends to bubble and splatter whencombined with certain other chemicals...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Chemical Accident In Med. Lab Injures Two | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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