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- noun Plural form of
complex .
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That which is designed includes: OOL, cells, genetic code, multiprotein complexes, molecular machines, genetic programs, protein networks, and cell types ….
Behe 2009
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"One can view all necessary biological features that are beyond what it's biologically reasonable to expect of unintelligent processes – for example, all cellular protein complexes containing two or more protein-protein binding sites – as just more and more examples of fine-tuning of the universe for life, akin to the unique events that produced the moon".
Behe 2009
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Personally, I think this trend of building larger and flashier biotech complexes is driven by penis envy.
OHSU biotech breakthrough -- worthless to Portland (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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These protein complexes perform familiar cellular functions.
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With this technique Klug has investigated the structure of large nucleic acid-protein complexes, such as viruses and chromatin, the carrier of the genes in the cell nucleus.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Indeed, he is asserting that it is not possible to build protein complexes because even a single new protein-protein interaction is extremely unlikely to arise.
Behe's Test 2008
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I think if people granted that the first living cells needed the great majority of proteins to work in complexes of six or more, then his argument would be difficult to refute.
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I think if people granted that the first living cells needed the great majority of proteins to work in complexes of six or more, then his argument would be difficult to refute.
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So that when we are told that all the multiple-protein complexes that the cell requires were the result of Darwinian processes, we'll view such claims with a raised eyebrow and demand to know how.
Behe's Test, Take 2 2008
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AB A detailed computational analysis of 32 protein-RNA complexes is presented.
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