(n.) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.
(n.) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Allomorphic relationships in chickens selected for high or low juvenile body weight and their reciprocal crosses were examined from hatch to 56 days of age (doa).
(2) The H-2w homozygotes were then characterized by serological typing with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies specific for the known allomorphs controlled by the class I H-2K and H-2D loci or the class II H-2A and H-2E loci.
(3) Controlled winding and stretching deformations are used to study how the two allomorphs and different base sequences absorb such external stress.
(4) This reduced fermentation rate was apparently due to the partial conversion of the cellulose from the type I to the type II allomorph, since mercerized (type II) cellulose was also fermented more slowly, and only after a much longer lag period.
(5) The in vivo site at which the different allomorphs of the E alpha Ia molecule exert their Ir gene effect on the immune response to pigeon cytochrome c was examined by creating two different sets of radiation-induced bone marrow chimeras.
(6) Allomorphic growth of organs and feed utilization were measured in cockerels from two meat lines known to differ in growth potential under alternate-day and daily feeding of diets differing in nutrient density.
(7) Allomorph (allele determined by electrophoresis) frequencies for 20 enzyme (loci) were calculated and 7 populations (Texas, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Ecuador [EC], Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic [DR]) were compared pairwise in the statistic of genetic identity (I) (level of genetic similarity).
(8) Sequencing of the PCR products and transfection of these to Fc gamma R- cells indicated that in Fc gamma RIIa of HR or LR individuals: (i) three nucleotide substitutions (CA to TG and G to A) resulted in the change of glutamine to tryptophan at position 27 (first extracellular domain) and arginine to histidine at position 131 (second extracellular domain); (ii) expression of cDNA encoding the various combinations of these indicated that arginine at position 131 was essential for IgG1 binding whereas the amino acid changes at position 27 had no effect; and (iii) IgG1 at high concentration bound to all allomorphic forms of Fc gamma RIIa.
(9) In addition, the 'logic' of assuming Contrast leads to insurmountable difficulties in the acquisition of irregular forms and allomorphs.
(10) Thus, it is unlikely that these enzymic variants reflect allomorphic forms of P-450 3b.
(11) The allomorph obtained by this process seems to correspond to the so-called 'tendon-chitosan'.
(12) Limiting dilution analysis confirmed a number of antigenic relationships suggested by the long-term T cell clones and revealed that T cells specific for allomorphic protease determinants were at least as frequent in the blood of immune donors as were T cells committed to conserved determinants.
(13) Lutzomyia youngi Feliciangelis and Murillo and L. spinicrassa Morales, Osorno, Osorno, and Hoyos each have diagnostic allomorphs for phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH) and fumarate hydratase (FUM).
(14) These clones defined five AP and three E specificities and suggested the existence of at least five allomorphic determinants expressed on the proteases of various Pseudomonas strains.
(15) Heterozygotes of hexokinase-1 and phosphoglucomutase displayed 2 allomorphs in equal dosage, indicating that trichomonads are diploid for these protein loci.
(16) A diagrammatic representation of the allomorphs among the 72 isolates is included.
(17) When isolated, the two major bands again produced an "isoelectric spectrum" suggesting that it reflects an allomorphism of cx-flagellin.
(18) With respect to the coupling factor's ability to hydrolyze ATP, the data in this study suggest that there are at least four distinct functional allomorphs of this enzyme: (1) the latent enzyme, which has no kinetically measurable ATPase activity, (2) intrinsic ATPase, which is catalyzed by a small percentage of the molecular population that has been activated by some natural mechanism, (3) activated ATPase, which has properties different from those of intrinsic ATPase, and (4) aged activated ATPase, in which some of the properties (Km for substrate, sensitivity to deactivation by Mg2+ and H+) spontaneously change within 30 min.
(19) Thus, we assume that they are stable conformational isomers of the proteins (allomorphism) or that there are only slight variations in the internal sequences of these proteins (polymorphism) causing distinct pIs.
Java
Definition:
(n.) One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
(n.) Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences in S. typhi strain distributions were noted between two localities on Java with respect to phage type and tetrathionate reductase activity.
(2) But it would be by no means impossible, as witness the startling declines on the part of certain communities in Taiwan, South Korea, Java, Thailand, Kerala State in India, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, during the recent past – these being countries that represent a broad range of political and economic systems, as well as of social and cultural backgrounds.
(3) A worm removed intact from the anterior chamber of the left eye of a 23-year-old woman from Central Java was identified as a mle Angiostrongylus cantonensis, 11.1 mm in length and 0.24 mm in maximum width.
(4) Indonesian divers have found the black box flight recorders of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, the transport ministry has said.
(5) In Java 81.1% of the males and 99.2% of the females showed dental mutilations in the form of grinding the incisal and vestibular surfaces of the maxillary incisors and canines.
(6) Ministry of Health staff in West Java, Indonesia, and staff from 2 US organizations compared data on 15 community health volunteers (kader), who had undergone 2 days of training on the use of cards to advise mothers of children with diarrhea, with data on 16 kader who did not use the counseling cards.
(7) Then cases were detected in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Java, Sarawak, the New Hebrides, Guam and Hawaii during the 1960s.
(8) A. barbirostris from Java was able to support development of B. timori as well as A. barbirostris from Flores.
(9) Antibodies against plague were lacking in 237 wild mammal sera from Java and 103 from Kalimantan.
(10) • Install the latest versions of your internet browsers and update add-ons such as Java and Adobe Flash.
(11) The prison island off Central Java is the site where two rounds of executions were conducted last year: six prisoners were killed in January and eight, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumuran, in April .
(12) Areas suspected to have ciguatoxic poisoning problem in the Solomon Islands includes Santa Cruz, Rennell and Bellona, Indispensable reefs, Ontong Java and Wagina island.
(13) Laboratory reared Aedes aegypti (black eye and Jakarta strains), Aedes togoi, (Taiwan), Aedes albopictus, (Jakarta), wild caught Anopheles barbirostris, (Java) and Mansonia uniformis, (Jakarta) were fed on a carrier with mixed infection of Brugia timori and Wuchereria bancrofti.
(14) Oracle has big court case against Google alleging that Android infringes a number of Java patents, and claiming $6.1bn in damages.
(15) The malaria situation in Indonesia is reviewed in the major island group of Java-Bali and the remainder of the archipelago called the Outer Islands.
(16) Humoral immunity reactions in draining lymph nodes have been analyzed histologically and at the submicroscopical level after challenge with Salmonella Java vaccine, horse spleen ferritin, horse-gamma-globulin, a chemical sensitizer oxazolone (2 phenyl-4-ethoxymethylene-5-oxazolone) and after skin allografting respectively.
(17) In Central Java and on the island of Bali 779 and 437 villagers respectively were examined for dental mutilations.
(18) Since 1982, the intensity and spread of DHF has created an increasing public health problem in Indonesia, particularly in Java where 60% of the total population of the country resides.
(19) Twenty-eight health care workers developed acute infection with Salmonella java; 15 participated in a placebo-controlled trial of ciprofloxacin, beginning on day 9 after infection.
(20) Weight and length of infants, born in two villages in Madura, East Java were measured longitudinally from birth to 12 months (n = 391).