Cofactor vs Determinant - What's the difference?
cofactor | determinant |
a contributing factor
(biochemistry) a substance, especially a coenzyme or a metal, that must be present for an enzyme to function
(biochemistry) a molecule that binds to and regulates the activity of a protein
(mathematics) the result of a number being divided by one of its factors
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
(linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
(biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
As nouns the difference between cofactor and determinant
is that cofactor is a contributing factor while determinant is a determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.As an adjective determinant is
serving to determine or limit; determinative.cofactor
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(en noun)determinant
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(wikipedia determinant) (en noun)See also
* permanent * singular *Mathworld article on determinants