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Figure 7.9 Energy levels of the hydrogen atom [73, p. 475].

The term “ribonoscopy” appearing in the third row and the third col-

umn is here defined as the experimental technique that allows biologists

to study genome-wide (i.e., over the whole set of genes in a cell) changes

in the levels of the RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules inside the cell meas-

ured by cDNA arrays (also called microarrays) and other methods as

functions of environmental perturbations. So defined, ribonoscopy may be

viewed as the experimental technique for doing “ribonomics”, a term

coined by Keene meaning the genome-wide study of RNA changes in

cells [328]. In other words, ribonoscopy may be to ribonomics what

atomic spectroscopy was to atomic electronics.

“Ribons” appearing in the fifth row and the third column is defined as

the genome-wide spatial and temporal patterns of mRNA levels or

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