Archive for February, 2008
Today’s tidbits and definitions
0 Comments Published by Orhan February 28th, 2008 in General Site, Ideas, Resources.Tidbits from behavioral economics: What counts as a gain or a loss is relative to prior prices, not considered as independent of an investor’s attention. A stock acquired at $50 and and acheives a year-end value of $100. A few months into the new year it is sold at $75. While this is objectively a [...]
Operon: A unit of genetic material that functions in a coordinated manner by means of an operator, a promoter, and one or more structural genes that are transcribed together.
Sigma Factor: A sigma factor (σ factor) is a prokaryotic transcription initiation factor that must be part of RNA polymerase (RNAP) for specific binding to promoter sites [...]