Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Foods that contain all of the essential amino acids in amounts sufficient for growth and maintenance of body functions.  

The decision making situation in which the decision maker knows exactly what the results of an implemented alternative will be uncertainty condition.    

A process that helps to make antigen antibody complexes easier for phagocytes to digest. Immunologic response in which an antigen combines with an antibody and its complement, causing the complement to become inactive. This phenomenon is the basis of certain blood tests to determine the presence of antibodies against specific diseases. Blood test in which…

The needs of a potential mate that are different from those possessed by the partner, compatible needs.  

In genetics, genes which are similar in phenotypic effect when present separately, but which together interact to produce a different character. Nonallelic, independently located genes, neither of which will be expressed in the absence of the other.  

In sociology, the tendency for people to be attracted to those traits and capacities that complement their own.  

A form of learning or a learning process wherein learners compete with each other (or with self) to achieve certain standards of learning. The opposite of cooperative learning.  

In biology, the effect of a common demand by two or more organisms on a limited supply of food, water, light, mineral, etc. The simultaneous attempt of similar substances to attach to a receptor site of a cell membrane.  

Stimuli that vie for one’s attention, frequently confiictual in nature.  

The ability of bacteria cells to undergo transduction.