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  • #46
    Originally posted by klaus54 View Post
    Duh! An idiot knows that genetic differences influence the response to toxins.

    Do you know what LD_50 means?
    If someone wanted to kill someone else, he would hardly use the LD50 dosage. Much more likely to try LD99.9 or greater. At that, would you still insist that the intended victim's genes matter much? . . . Yea, I suppose so.
    The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

    [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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    • #47
      Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
      If someone wanted to kill someone else, he would hardly use the LD50 dosage. Much more likely to try LD99.9 or greater. At that, would you still insist that the intended victim's genes matter much? . . . Yea, I suppose so.
      Genetics determine both what substances are toxic for an individual as well as what effects varying dosages have.
      I'm not here anymore.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
        If someone wanted to kill someone else, he would hardly use the LD50 dosage. Much more likely to try LD99.9 or greater. At that, would you still insist that the intended victim's genes matter much? . . . Yea, I suppose so.
        LD50 is used to account for the genetic variability of reaction to a toxin across a population.

        Of course a very high would croak off most of a population.

        But the question was concerning the effect of genetics on toxicant resistance.

        D'uh!

        K54

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        • #49
          What a trivial derail!

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