Another remarkable example of a similar concrete construction are the two airplane hangars for the Italian Air Force in Orvieto, Italy, by Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, designed in 1935 and built in 1938. They were also destroyed during World War II.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Molecular mimicry. Molecular mimicry is defined as the theoretical possibility that sequence similarities between foreign and self-peptides are sufficient to result in the cross-activation of autoreactive T or B cells by pathogen-derived peptides.
Large-scale evolution occurring over geologic time that results in the formation of new species and broader taxonomic groups. Microevolution: Changes in the traits of a group of organisms within a species that do not result in a new species. Mimicry: In biology, mimicry is the superficial resemblance of one species of organism to another species or to a natural object in its surroundings.