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  2. Elicitor - Wikipedia

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    An example is chitosan which is found in insects, fungi and the shells of crustaceans. Chitosan is used in agriculture as a natural biocontrol agent, to improve plant health and increase crop yields. Chitosan is used in agriculture as a natural biocontrol agent, to improve plant health and increase crop yields.

  3. Inducer - Wikipedia

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    Activator binds to an inducer and the complex binds to the activation sequence and activates target gene. [2] Removing the inducer stops transcription. [2] Because a small inducer molecule is required, the increased expression of the target gene is called induction. [2] The lactose operon is one example of an inducible system. [2]

  4. Fearmongering - Wikipedia

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    Social agents of all kinds are often using fearmongering as a tactic in the competition for attention, as illustrated by the examples below. [3] [5] Fearmongering can have strong psychological effects, which may be intended or unintended. One hypothesized effect is mean world syndrome in which people perceive the world as more dangerous than it ...

  5. Enzyme induction and inhibition - Wikipedia

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    Index inducer or just inducer predictably induce metabolism via a given pathway and are commonly used in prospective clinical drug-drug interaction studies. [ 2 ] Strong, moderate, and weak inducers are drugs that decreases the AUC of sensitive index substrates of a given metabolic pathway by ≥80%, ≥50% to <80%, and ≥20% to <50% ...

  6. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  7. Inductor - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the current through an inductor is increasing, the induced potential difference will be positive at the current's entrance point and negative at the exit point, tending to oppose the additional current.

  8. K. Bhaskaran Nair - Wikipedia

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    The science books he wrote in Malayalam include parinamam (meaning-evolution), adhunika sasthram (meaning-Modern science), manatthukanni, tharapatham (meaning-galaxy), shasthrathinte gathi (meaning-The course of science), kuttikalkkayulla pranilokam (meaning-Animal world for kids), shasthra deepika (meaning-science light), jeeva sasthravum golavidyayum (biology and astronomy) sasthra padavali ...

  9. Ideasthesia - Wikipedia

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    Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like sensory experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis), meaning 'sensing concepts' or