Re: [DIYbio] Re: Making my own incubator inexpensively

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Simon Quellen Field <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote:
> A proxy is where you count on a relation to use one easily measured thing
> instead of
> what you actually want to measure. Temperature can be used as a proxy for
> growth only because in a limited range, it correlates with growth. But that
> range needs
> to be known for each organism, and needs to be stated in the protocol, and
> it usually
> isn't.
>
> Clearly temperature is not linear with growth when you reach the heat shock
> levels, or the boiling point. But the growth curve with respect to
> temperature is
> a curve, and we pretend it is linear by taking our samples from a narrow
> range.
>

Hmm, I see, so temp is direct for chemistry or atoms, but not for the
abstraction of "life" or growth thereof

Also the second link doesn't work

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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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