(n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
(n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
(n.) A dupe.
(v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Example Sentences:
(1) In recent studies, we have found that Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc residues are abundant on red cells and nucleated cells of nonprimate mammals, prosimians, and New World monkeys, but their expression is diminished in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.
(2) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(3) Other differences in cytoarchitecture, within the great apes and humans, include decreases in the small and giant cell populations of the cochlear complex.
(4) In order to analyse possible mechanisms of N-action of these factors, we have cultured APE explants for 3 or 18 h in the medium containing various concentrations of con A, PHA of EBDNF.
(5) We are by far the most successful of the great apes and have pushed our cousins right up against the wall.
(6) Finally, the M. fuscata replication sequence presented here will provide a necessary foundation for future comparisons between apes and man.
(7) Miocene hominoids from Europe are among the earliest members of the great ape and human clade (the Hominidae).
(8) 4-[[N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-carbamoyl]oxy]-2-butynyltrimethylammonium chloride (McN-A-343) and N-ethyl-guvacine propargyl ester (NEN-APE) produced minimal or no arteriolar vasodilation.
(9) Gibbons that acquired infectious gibbon ape leukemia virus, either naturally by exposure to a virus-shedding ape or experimentally by deliberate virus inoculation, had the same levels of serum lytic activity as did unexposed gibbons that had no detectable antibodies to gibbon ape leukemia virus.
(10) After this separation, the ancestral DRB1 gene of the DRw52 group duplicated in the Old World monkey lineage to give rise to genes at three loci at least, while in the ape lineage this gene may have remained single and diverged into a number of alleles instead.
(11) The results conform to the general pattern that great apes exhibit many cognitive skills comparable to those of 2-year-old humans.
(12) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(13) Relative to human, no translocations were detected in great apes, except for the well-known fusion-origin of human chromosome 2 and a 5;17 translocation in the gorilla.
(14) Replacement of the N-methyl group in arecoline and APE by larger substituents (ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, benzyl, phenylethyl) as well as N-methylation resulted in a decrease or even a complete loss of agonistic activity.
(15) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(16) She had no idea what she was saying.” The girl, Julia, was escorted from the ground by security guards after she was identified by Goodes as having called him an “ape” .
(17) Gonococci attached to, damaged, and invaded the oviduct (fallopian tube) mucosa of chimpanzees (which are apes) but not the oviduct mucosa of baboons (which are monkeys).
(18) The TLC analysis indicated that the oligomer produced by APE is not identical to the 2'-5' oligoadenylate.
(19) All positive sera from gibbon apes reacted as HSV-1 positive.
(20) Little evidence exists that apes can use symbols as names, that is, as a means of simply transmitting information.
Chimpanzee
Definition:
(n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examinations of serial liver biopsy specimens revealed that the duration of expression of the antigen reacting with the antibodies in hepatocytes of chimpanzees infected with NANBV appeared to be longer than that of chimpanzees infected with HDV.
(2) We determined four nucleotide sequences of the hominoid immunoglobulin alpha (C alpha) genes (chimpanzee C alpha 2, gorilla C alpha 2, and gibbon C alpha 1 and C alpha 2 genes), which made possible the examination of gene conversions in all hominoid C alpha genes.
(3) An important antigenic determinant of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 that induces neutralizing activity in infected humans and chimpanzees was previously mapped with nonapeptides between amino acids 307 and 320 on the external envelope glycoprotein (gp 120) of strain HTLV-IIIB (molecular clone BH10) and amino acids 320 to 330 of strain HTLV-IIIRF.
(4) The sites of growth and remodeling, and the associated changes in cortical bone structure, have been studied in the chimpanzee mandible and compared with those previously reported in the human and macaque mandibles.
(5) Writing in the journal Nature , the researchers describe how our ancestors lost another piece of DNA that gives rise to both facial whiskers and sensitive spines on the tip of the penis, both of which are found in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.
(6) With the use of the chimpanzee and human sequences to calibrate the rate of mtDNA evolution, the age of the common human mtDNA ancestor is placed between 166,000 and 249,000 years.
(7) Second, two macaques or two African green monkey subspecies were as distanly related as the human versus chimpanzee sequences.
(8) The anti-HCV EIA was manufactured by Ortho-Diagnostic Systems with recombinant antigens from Chiron Corp. based on extraction from high infectious titre chimpanzee plasma RNA after transcription into cDNA.
(9) Rhesus monkeys immunized with gp120 ISCOMs produced precipitating and virus neutralizing antibody titres equivalent to those seen in HIV-infected chimpanzees and humans.
(10) Also, during prepatency the granulocyte and antibody-mediated in vitro killing of microfilariae of O. volvulus increased in subsequently patent chimpanzees.
(11) The human hepatitis B virus (HBV) produced by a rat hepatoma cell line through transfection with HBV DNA is infectious in the human primate model--chimpanzee.
(12) The alphoid repeat DNA on chimpanzee chromosome 22 was compared with alphoid repeat DNA on its human homologue, chromosome 21.
(13) The system found insulin levels in the Old World primates rhesus and chimpanzee which were quite like those of human beings.
(14) In all infected chimpanzees the in vitro cellular reactivity to O. volvulus adult worm-derived Ag (OvAg) increased significantly after exposure to third-stage larvae.
(15) The protective efficacy of a new type of yeast-derived hepatitis B (HB) vaccine (TGP-943, subtype adr), which was formulated from modified M (pre-S2 + S; P31) protein (M-P31c) particles, was investigated in chimpanzees.
(16) Although the absolute concentrations were higher, the patterns of relaxin secretion throughout the reproductive cycle in chimpanzees was qualitatively very similar to that observed in other primates, including the human being.
(17) Our findings substantially increase the evidence indicative of a human-chimpanzee-gorilla clade with ancestral separations around 8 to 6 Myr ago.
(18) One of two chimpanzees inoculated with 4 cell culture infectious units became infected.
(19) Antibody to ovine LH beta (oLH beta) subunit and equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) were produced in adult male chimpanzees and evaluated for cross reactivity with oLH, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and eCG by in vitro and in vivo methods.
(20) Because of the relative availability of chimpanzees for laboratory studies, we suggest that chimpanzees may be the optimal nonhuman primate model for determining the advisability of vaccinations in man using conjugates of HCG fragments to achieve fertility control or for suppression of HCG-producing neoplasms.