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Is There a Cascade or a Pathway?
The same system in the world could be described with either a cascade or a pathway, depending on what you're interested in. A so in blood coagulation. If you want to know about one enzyme in that system and study it in detail, you can get a mechanistic understanding of it. But if you want to explain this tiny signal the very beginning and the huge effect you have at the end, then you're going to see something that's a cascade type of system.