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How Do Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Models in "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" Relate to Organic and Physical Chemistry?
I'm reading Alan Turing's "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" and its reaction-diffusion models:
https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf
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How do salts affect pH? [closed]
Since pH measures the effective proton concentration, it is the concentration of a very specific type of cation. I know if salt reacts with water, it will affect pH. But my question is, how does the ...
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A question about potential difference across a membrane
Membrane potential of living cells arising from the difference of concentration of ions on both sides of the membrane, but why didn't someone use selective polymers as AEM (Anion Exchange Membrane) ...
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Ratio of uncharged to charged side chains [closed]
The $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a}$ of the side chain imidazole group of histidine is $6.0.$ What is the ratio of uncharged to charged side chains at $\mathrm{pH}~7?$
Here's my attempt to the solution:
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Enzyme Kinetics
How come enzymes with a lower $K_\mathrm{m}$ are more easily saturated with substrate than an enzyme with higher $K_\mathrm{m}?$
Is it because enzymes with higher $K_\mathrm{m}$ are able to bind ...
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