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What sort of science is Victor learning from Agrippa?
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Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) was a German mystic who practiced a "science" that combined alchemy, magic, mysticism, and astrology. Two of his books are Three Books of Occult Philosophy and On Calling Spirits. Through the writing of Agrippa, Frankenstein becomes very interested in alchemy, which is a pseudoscience whose main object is to find a way of turning base metals into gold. You could say that Frankenstein adapted the thinking of the alchemists and instead of transforming other metals into gold attempted to transform a corpse into a living being.
An interesting story about Agrippa concerns sightings of him after his death:
There were rumors that Agrippa had summoned demons on his death bed, and that a black dog roamed the countryside as his familiar. The black dog appears in tales as Faustus, Mephistopheles, and even as a grim in the Harry Potter series.
Answer:
Repressor protein
Explanation:
Repressor is a protein that binds to deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) or ribonucleic acid(RNA) it inhibits the expression of one or more genes which is done by binding to the associated silencers.
A DNA binding repressor works by blocking the attachment of RNA polymerase an enzyme that enhance transcription to the promoter, thus preventing genes from been transcribed into messenger RNA.
An RNA binding repressor binds to the messenger RNA and prevents translation of the bases on the messenger RNA into protein. The blocking of expression is called repression.
Some molecular studies point to amphibians descending from the lung fish, the Diponi.
Under the class Amphibia, amphibians are tetra-pod, cold blooded vertebrates without having scales. Protein is produced by the special skin of Amphibians.
Lung fish belong to the subclass of Diponi, these are living air breathing species.
Answer:
Specular reflection, or regular reflection, is the mirror-like reflection of waves, such as light, from a surface
