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Synergy vs Cooperativity - What's the difference?

synergy | cooperativity |

As nouns the difference between synergy and cooperativity

is that synergy is behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts while cooperativity is (biochemistry) an interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another.

synergy

English

(wikipedia synergy)

Noun

(synergies)
  • Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
  • (medicine) Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
  • (pharmacology) An interaction between drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
  • Benefits resulting from combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.

    • Usage notes

    * (term) is frequently dismissed as business jargon.

    Antonyms

    * anergy (in economics )

    Related terms

    * energy

    External links

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    cooperativity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cooperativity) (cooperativities)
  • (biochemistry) An interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another