(a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(2) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(3) We also recognized areas of early involvement with deposition of this "peculiar curly" material between a distorted epithelial basal lamina and a normal undisturbed Bowman's layer.
(4) Rosemary antioxidants (RA) and Curcumin (Cur) have weaker scavenging effects than Vc, but stronger than VE.
(5) The analysis and expression of the cur genes for detailed molecular studies of the mechanism of polyketide biosynthesis is discussed.
(6) The subunit protein of curli was highly homologous at its amino terminus to SEF-17, the subunit protein of thin, aggregative fimbriae of Salmonella enteritidis 27655 strain 3b, suggesting that these fibres form a novel class of surface organelles on enterobacteria.
(7) The structures were curly, fibrillary strands, resembling paramyxoviral filaments morphologically, but larger in diameter (25 to 40nm).
(8) Preincubation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with interferon alpha (IFN alpha), interleukin 2 (Il-2), interleukin 1 (Il-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha greatly increased the rate and magnitude of Cur killing.
(9) He is sporting a bohemian look, with a long, curly ponytail and large spectacles.
(10) The PT23 Cur gene(s) was located on pCOP1 by subcloning PstI restriction endonuclease fragments of pCOP1 in the broad-host-range vector pRK404.
(11) We have investigated in detail the cytokine induced killing of a NK resistant renal carcinoma cell line Cur by human NK cells.
(12) The copper resistance (Cur) genes encoded on pXV10A, a 190-kb plasmid in Xanthomonas campestris pv.
(13) No differences were observed in the severity of symptoms or levels of viral DNA when transformants and controls were challenged with the related geminiviruses beet curly top virus and tomato golden mosaic virus, demonstrating the specific nature of the interaction.
(14) My dark, curly (and at the time) unnecessarily long hair was an obvious display of my Greek heritage.
(15) When males with curly wings were mated, females dropped either unfertilized egg cases (no mating) or partially fertilized egg cases.
(16) In plants infected with the curly top virus, the crystalloids do not differ from those in non-infected controls in structure and conformation.
(17) A curly-toe system was observed in coturnix chicks fed low levels of folacin and might also be a consequence of folacin deficiency.
(18) Curli, an extracellular structure that binds fibronectin, was recently described (A. Olsén, A. Jonsson, and S. Normark, Nature [London] 338:652-655, 1989).
(19) BGMV DNA 1 and beet curly top virus (BCTV) DNA are closely related, whereas BGMV DNA 2 and BCTV DNA are not related.
(20) SamCam: He's not the plebby, curly-haired golfer, is he?
Frizzy
Definition:
(a.) Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results prove that a major gene does exist, that it is very closely linked with frizzy, fr, in chromosome 7, which in turn is linked with ce, that it is fully dominant in females at 4 months of age, and that its partial dominance in males is under the control of modifiers.
(2) Frizzy (frz) mutants are unable to aggregate normally, instead forming frizzy filamentous aggregates.
(3) Linkage backcrosses show the gene to be situated on chromosome 7 with about 25% recombination with the closely linked warfarin-resistance genes War, and frizzy, fr.
(4) The frizzy (frz) genes are required to control directed motility.
(5) Faced with a patient presenting with 'frizzy' hair it is helpful to have a systematic approach rather than simply 'thumb through the books'.
(6) The frizzy mutations (frz) were found to be genetically linked.
(7) Condom frizziness and color were less important attributes.
(8) The main clinical features in our three patients were the fine, soft and frizzy woolly hair (fig.2) and generalized hypothrichosis.
(9) The "frizzy" (frz) mutants are unable to complete the developmental pathway.
(10) The map position of fz in the rat corresponds to that of fr (frizzy) in the mouse, suggesting homology between these loci in the 2 species.
(11) Humidity can make it rough in the back (the kitchen) and frizzy around the face.
(12) It's said he has a wardrobe full of wigs, ranging from the frizzy mop he wore on the London stage in the 80s to the more fashionable, wet-look model he sports today.
(13) The gene replacement strains allowed us to define the limits of the frz region, since Tn5 insertions in the frz genes resulted in the frizzy phenotype.
(14) These mutants cannot aggregate normally and give rise to frizzy filamentous colonies on fruiting agar or motility agar.
(15) It’s about, apparently, flat out deception.” The television personality Montel Williams joked about Dolezal’s frizzy-haired attempt to pass as black.
(16) Igl mutants, which may be similar to the previously described frizzy mutants, are cohesive strains that are unable to form fruiting bodies.
(17) The frizzy (frz) mutants aggregate aberrantly and therefore fail to form fruiting bodies.
(18) The frizzy (frz) genes are required to control directed motility for these interactions.
(19) The frizzy (frz) mutants of Myxococcus xanthus are unable to form fruiting bodies.
(20) When a reporter with the TV channel KXLY asked the activist, who now has frizzy hair and apparently browner skin, if she was African American she fled, abandoning her keys and purse.