What's the difference between conterminal and coterminal?
Conterminal
Definition:
(a.) Conterminous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of breast muscle from 327 ducks collected from October 1970 to March 1971 in the conterminous United States were analyzed for total mercury by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry.
(2) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has assisted 30 of the 48 conterminous states in completing statistically designed surveys of indoor 222Rn over the past 4 y.
(3) These results suggest that the ascending group I inhibitory pathway, formed by these interneurones, is associated specifically with the group I relay of the dorsal spinocerebellar tract in Clarke's column, rather than being conterminous with group I afferents, which project throughout the rostral lumbar and lowest thoracic segments.
(4) Although the rural and nonmetropolitan populations are not conterminous, approximately the same percentage of the nation's population is included in each of the two categories.
(5) In a survey of fungi and mycotoxin conterminating acha (Digitaria exilis Stapf) in Plateau State of Nigeria, 96 fungal isolates were made.
(6) Thyroid hormone preparations comprised over 1% of all prescriptions filled by retail pharmacies during 1988 in the conterminous United States, i.e., the 48 contiguous states.
(7) With the use of data from the Spring 1977 sample of the USDA Nationwide Food Consumption Survey 1977-78, 1- and 3-day nutrient intakes for 8,779 individuals in 22 sex-age groups in the 48 conterminous states were compared.
(8) In the P3HR-1 line, BALF-2 encodes a 3.4-kilobase (kb) mRNA during the early phase and a 3.3-kb mRNA during the late phase, and in the Raji line, the probe corresponding to BALF-2 hybridized with three mRNAs of 5.0, 3.1, and 2.4 kb; in P3HR-1 cells, BARF-1 encodes a group of 3'-conterminal transcripts (0.8, 1.2, 1.7, 2.7, 3.2, and 5.0 kb) during both the early and late stages; in Raji cells, however, 0.8-, 1.2-, and 1.7-kb mRNAs are absent, the only mRNAs transcribed being upstream of the deletion and of 5.0, 2.6, and 2.0 kb in size.
(9) --The endemic emergence zone is tending to become conterminous with the endemicity area on account of increasing deforestation.
(10) Data from the 1975-1976 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics were examined retrospectively to determine the extent to which blood pressure was measured during visits to office-based physicians in the conterminous United States.
(11) In addition to connecting homologous cells, gap junctions were present between conterminous serous and mucous cells.
Coterminal
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the presence of 3'-OMeGTP, nearly homogeneous populations of 3'-coterminal elongation complexes were positioned at the first G residue of the template.
(2) The two remaining RNAs are leftwardly transcribed and are 5' and 3' coterminal.
(3) The most prominent in vitro translation products of ORF-206 are the full-length p206 and a shorter N-coterminal 150-kDa protein.
(4) B19 differed from other parvoviruses in the initiation of all transcripts at a strong left side promoter (p6) and the absence of a functional internal promoter; the presence of short 5' leader sequences of about 60 bases and very large introns for RNAs encoded by the right side of the genome; two separate transcription termination sites, in contrast to cotermination at the far right side of the genome for other parvoviruses; the probable utilization by three transcripts of a variant polyadenylation signal (ATTAAA or AATAAC) in the middle of the genome; and the abundance of two unique transcripts from the middle of the genome which did not code for capsid proteins.
(5) We found that the rate of ADR1 protein synthesis increased 10- to 16-fold within 40 to 60 min after glucose depletion, coterminous with initiation of ADH2 transcription.
(6) Three coterminal proteins of differing sizes and three subdomains of the individual molecules can be recognized.
(7) Evidence is presented here that all three HCMV GCR genes are transcribed during infection, that they are transcribed as two sets of 3'-coterminal mRNAs, and that their transcription is restricted to the late phase of infection.
(8) The two virion sense transcripts were 3' coterminal at nucleotide 1114 but had 5' termini at nucleotides 2682 and 163 respectively.
(9) It is coterminous with a spatial distribution of wealth and power, which is sometimes too simply called “the north-south divide”.
(10) The P and V proteins are amino coterminal and have 164 amino acids in common.
(11) We consider that this region contains 12 genes, which are expressed by mRNAs which have separate promoters, but may share 3'-termination sites, so that all but two mRNAs belong to one of four 3'-coterminal "families": 79% of the sequence is considered to be polypeptide coding.
(12) In the AcMNPV, a nested set of seven overlapping transcripts ranging from 2.2 to 5.3 kb was found, each with coterminal 3' ends.
(13) When the coterminous United States was divided into three horizontal tiers of states, we found a strong effect of geography on age at onset.
(14) The true late viral mRNAs are 3' coterminal with the 3.1-kb mRNA.
(15) The truncated RNA (Po RNA) is 147 to 148 residues long and is coterminal with the 3' ends of intact S20 mRNAs.
(16) The major product of 147 residues is obtained in 60 to 70% yield, is coterminal with the 3' end of the substrate, and is identical to an mRNA fragment previously characterized in vivo (G. A. Mackie, J. Bacteriol.
(17) In addition, their genome organization and expression strategy, which involves the synthesis of a 3'-coterminal nested set of mRNAs, are comparable.
(18) The mRNAs from the five ORFs were found to coterminate at a single site downstream of ORF 5.
(19) His implication that progressivism and the coalition are synonymous or coterminous is simply untrue, and even cheap.
(20) The distribution of 15,145 deaths from NP cancer over the years 1950-1979 revealed clustering in the 119 ESRs that was not detected in analyses of distribution by the 48 states, 506 state economic areas or 3,056 counties or combinations of counties of the coterminous United States.