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Precursors in the Halo series, an extremely advanced race that preceded and were destroyed by The Forerunners; Precursor, a 1999 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe; Precursors, a fictional race (now extinct) of ancient beings in the board game Cosmic Encounter; Precursors, a fictional alien race in the Star Control video game series
The Precursors is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed by Ukrainian game studio Deep Shadows. The game was released for Windows in Russia on 4 December 2009. [ 1 ] It was then released worldwide through GamersGate on 21 December 2010 and through Steam on 4 February 2017.
In chemistry, a precursor is a compound that participates in a chemical reaction that produces another compound. In biochemistry , the term "precursor" often refers more specifically to a chemical compound preceding another in a metabolic pathway , such as a protein precursor .
Drug precursors, also referred to as precursor chemicals or simply precursors, are substances used to manufacture illicit drugs. Most precursors also have legitimate commercial uses and are legally used in a wide variety of industrial processes and consumer products, such as medicines, flavourings, and fragrances.
In cell biology, precursor cells—also called blast cells—are partially differentiated, or intermediate, and are sometimes referred to as progenitor cells. A precursor cell is a stem cell with the capacity to differentiate into only one cell type, meaning they are unipotent stem cells .
The particular type of precursor characterized by increasing period and amplitude is known as the high-frequency Sommerfeld precursor. In a region of anomalous dispersion, where low-frequency components have faster group velocities than high-frequency ones, the opposite of the above situation occurs: the onset of the precursor is characterized ...
It is a precursor of later amniotes (including both the reptiles and the ancestors of mammals). Alpha keratin first evolves here; it is used in the claws of modern amniotes, and hair in mammals, indicating claws and a different type of scales evolved in amniotes (complete loss of gills as well). [20]
The concept has been applied to those who would find precursors of Darwin in the early nineteenth century, [3] and to those who would find anticipations of modern science in ancient cultures from the Near East to Mesoamerica. [4] Precursorism has recently been identified as a significant factor in some studies of the work of Islamic scientists. [5]