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To: week 71
I assume you mean sesquipedalian? I admit to finding a certain amount of precision helpful. Perhaps you could point out which words in my post you found overlong?

Also, I find your point amusing considering your post of the Behe extract wherein:

Trans-retinal eventually falls off of the rhodopsin molecule and must be reconverted to 11-cis-retinal and again bound by opsin to regenerate rhodopsin for another visual cycle. To accomplish this trans-retinal is first chemically modified by an enzyme to transretinol, a form containing two more hydrogen atoms. A second enzyme then isomerizes the molecule to 11-cis-retinol. Finally, a third enzyme removes the previouslyadded hydrogen atoms to form 11-cis-retinal, and the cycle is complete.

137 posted on 12/23/2001 6:15:34 PM PST by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
I assume you mean sesquipedalian? I admit to finding a certain amount of precision helpful. Perhaps you could point out which words in my post you found overlong?

Perhaps I chose the wrong word. Maybe I should have said pedantic or cerebral. Then again it is probably just the fact that I am ignorant of that vernacular (computer programming) while way more fluent with terms of biochemistry and organic chemistry. Have a Merry Christmas, and if you are not prone to celebrate Christmas, Happy holidays.

141 posted on 12/23/2001 6:38:18 PM PST by week 71
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