What's the difference between dicacious and dicacity?
Dicacious
Definition:
(a.) Talkative; pert; saucy.
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Dicacity
Definition:
(n.) Pertness; sauciness.
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(1) An analysis of the in vivo control of promoters dicAp, dicBp and dicCp placed upstream of malQ shows that the dicAC system is functionally similar to that of an immunity region, with the possible exception of an absence of pairwise cooperative binding.
(2) Nevertheless, the consensus half-operator sequence of dicAC, TGTTA-GYYA, differs significantly from that of P22 immC (ATT-TAAGAN).
(3) Sequence comparisons indicate that dicA and dicC are similar to genes c2 and cro respectively of bacteriophage P22, and carry similarly organized tandem operators, indicating a common evolutionary origin for dicAC and P22 immC.