What's the difference between deletion and erasure?

Deletion


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
  • (2) None of the 4NQO- or 4HAQO-induced mutants is a multilocus deletion mutant.
  • (3) In strains completely deleted for galR, the gene which encodes the Gal repressor, the operon is derepressed by only 10-fold without an inducer.
  • (4) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
  • (5) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
  • (6) By external deletion, we have identified RXE composed of 205 nucleotides.
  • (7) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
  • (8) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
  • (9) Analysis of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) expression by enzyme assay and immunoblots, as well as Northern and dot blots of poly (A)+ RNA, in the deletion strains indicates that there are two upstream regulatory sequences that control the level of gene expression.
  • (10) Analysis of genetic markers associated with the deleted haplotypes pointed to the independent origin of similar deletions and the involvement of intergenic sequences in the mispairing-recombination process.
  • (11) Cells transfected with either the first or second construct and selected for the TK+ phenotype were then tested for TK induction after superinfection with HSV-1(F) delta 305, containing a deletion in the coding sequences of the TK gene, and viruses containing, in addition, a ts lesion in the alpha 4 regulatory protein (ts502 delta 305) or in the beta 8 major DNA-binding protein (tsHA1 delta 305).
  • (12) No 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity and only a trace of 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be demonstrated when bile acid was deleted from the growth medium.
  • (13) All four human MBP variants were identical except for the insertion of deletion of two peptide fragments corresponding to those encoded by exons 2 and 5 of the MBP gene.
  • (14) Molecular analysis of HPRT- mutant DNAs showed a high frequency (69%) of clones with partial or full deletions of the hprt gene among radiation-induced mutants compared with spontaneous mutants (31%).
  • (15) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (16) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
  • (17) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
  • (18) Then these two repeats were separated and deleted systematically to obtain various deletions.
  • (19) Although T cell tolerance to self antigens is primarily a reflection of clonal deletion in the thymus, recent evidence suggests that mature T cells are subject to negative regulation in the post-thymic environment: Extrathymic tolerance is the result of clonal anergy in some studies and T cell deletion in others.
  • (20) We report two cases of leiomyomas of the uterus with a deletion of the long arm of chromosome 13.

Erasure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As marginalized people, we have always faced erasure: either our story is never told, or it is told by everyone but us.
  • (2) The possibility remains, however, that the impairment seen in these tasks reflects the requirement for erasure of information from previous trials within each daily session, rather than the duration of the retention interval.
  • (3) A: Facebook didn't have a comment on Tuesday, but it does already have mechanisms that let people remove data, and sources there say it "already complies with the right to erasure set out in certain data protection legislation".
  • (4) In contrast, it is normal in all aspects of growth, in the sequence of morphogenetic stages, in spore formation, in the capacity to rapidly recapitulate morphogenesis, and in the erasure event and subsequent program of dedifferentiation.
  • (5) The erasure of indigenous people explains why Dakota Access was rerouted from upstream of Bismarck south to Standing Rock.
  • (6) The ‘erasure’ of women killed by police Facebook Twitter Pinterest A #BlackLivesMatter protest marches through the posh city of Beverly Hills.
  • (7) When cAMP is added after the erasure event, it causes a low, transient increase in the level of 16G1 RNA.
  • (8) Those who choose to view Wearing’s sculpture as championing the erasure of fathers and broken Britain miss the point.
  • (9) But it cautions: "Our concern is about how difficult (or impossible) this may be to achieve in practice and how it could lead individuals to believe falsely that they can achieve the absolute erasure of information about them.
  • (10) This is going to sound quite appalling, but nobody in my circle of friends in 1986 would have admitted liking Erasure, or would have been seen dead going out and buying a Boy George CD.
  • (11) The failure to highlight and demand accountability for the countless black women killed by police over the past two decades,” the report observes, “leaves black women unnamed and thus under-protected in the face of their continued vulnerability to racialized police violence.” A lawyer for Anderson’s family, David Malik, who has been involved in many Ohio cases involving police violence, told the Guardian that in his experience the erasure of those stories was typical.
  • (12) "The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
  • (13) Human figure drawings were scored on seven characteristics popularly attributed to juvenile delinquents, i.e., head size, shading, and three indicators of emotional conflict, i.e., transparencies, omissions, and erasures.
  • (14) A rapid method of identification by using computerized videotape erasure of mutilating injuries is presented.
  • (15) The rapid reduction in the level of gp80 transcript which can be effected by the addition of cAMP prior to the erasure event in wild-type cells is also retained by HI4 cells well after the erasure event.
  • (16) I mean, at school the girls all went out and bought Erasure without any issue."
  • (17) "We think the most responsible service providers will offer the right to erasure.
  • (18) The erasure of the war began in 1972 with the granting of amnesty to the Pakistani army officers who led the killings.
  • (19) Growth-associated polypeptides begin to be resynthesized and development-associated polypeptides exhibit dramatic decreases in rate of synthesis at different times throughout the first 240 min in erasure medium.
  • (20) Mortgage worries; a banal sex life; a clutching fear of erasure from cultural and public life; and, as Sawyer puts it in her wonderful book, that sudden desire to change career and become a “midwife-cum-cabbie-stroke-gardener”.