What's the difference between cognacy and cognate?

Cognacy


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Cognate


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  • (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
  • (a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
  • (n.) One who is related to another on the female side.
  • (n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of sigma 54 promoters, known to require cognate binding proteins, could allow the fine-tuning that provides the temporal ordering of flagellar gene transcription.
  • (2) To date, a cognate action of E2 on the GnRH pulse generator has not been described.
  • (3) Cognate sites in genomes that diverged approximately 100 million years ago can be detected by PCR assays based on primer pairs from unique sequences.
  • (4) Cognate heat shock proteins might be involved in this renaturation process.
  • (5) LEW rats immunized with each of the three DA MHC chains produced alloantibodies to these chains, suggesting that indirect allorecognition did occur, because of the requirement for cognate recognition of B cells by T helper cells.
  • (6) Microcultures of helper T (Th) cells and a few appropriately primed murine B cells can be used to detect cognate T-B interactions which lead to clonal production of IgM, IgG1, and IgE.
  • (7) We have investigated the structural relationship of heat-inducible and cognate members of the human hsp70 gene family.
  • (8) If protein mixtures are subjected to affinity elution the cognate pair [tRNAPhe-phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase] is eluted first, followed by noncognate pairs.
  • (9) These results suggest that cognate T-B cell interactions may be important in the development of IgE immune responses in the normal host.
  • (10) Ribosomes programmed by different synonymous codons also differ in discriminating among near-cognate aminoacylated tRNAs.
  • (11) These results were then compared with CVB-specific IgM levels in the cognate patient sera.
  • (12) This line induces proliferation of and Ig secretion by I-Ak expressing but not H-2d resting and activated B cells as a result of cognate interactions.
  • (13) The protein has been designated as a stress cognate protein based on previous studies and data presented herein that this protein cross-reacted with a monoclonal antibody originally raised against the Drosophila 70 kilodalton heat shock protein.
  • (14) By radioactive in situ hybridization (ISH) using a fragment from the murine Pax-1 paired box that is almost identical to the respective sequences from the cognate human gene HuP48 and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using a complete mouse Pax-1 cDNA, we have assigned the human homologue of murine Pax-1, the PAX1 locus, to chromosome 20p.
  • (15) One region in most sigma factors makes sequence-specific contacts at the -10 region of its cognate promoters.
  • (16) This suggests that the SRE and its cognate protein are likely to be involved in the regulation of Krox-24 and presumably of other immediate-early serum response genes.
  • (17) A third Slp gene exists within this locus whose recombinant cognate did not express in L cells.
  • (18) Two of the hox appear to be cognates of the human Hu-1 (or mouse Hox 2.1) and the mouse Hox 1-3, while another is closely related to the mouse Hox 1-4.
  • (19) Comparison of our skeletal muscle translocator sequence with that of a recently published human fibroblast translocator cognate revealed that the two proteins are 88% identical and diverged about 275 million years ago.
  • (20) Comparison of the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of this genome segment with cognate segments of isolates of BTV 1 from Australia and South Africa, and BTV 10 and BTV 17 from the United States, revealed homologies of 98%, 80%, 79%, and 79%, respectively, at the nucleotide level and 98%, 90%, 89%, and 90% identity, respectively, at the amino acid level.

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