What's the difference between eon and exon?

Eon


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aeon

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
  • (3) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
  • (4) Accumulation of random mutations and large macromolecular sequence change in all organisms since the Proterozoic Eon has been importantly supplemented by acquisition of inherited genomes ('symbiogenesis').
  • (5) Karyotypic alterations (polyploidization and karyotypic fissioning) have been added to these other mechanisms of species origin in plants and animals during the Phanerozoic Eon.
  • (6) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (7) Ofgem is understood to believe the big six – Centrica's British Gas, EDF Energy, RWE Npower, SSE, Eon and Scottish Power – hold up to £400m in millions of accounts closed after customers switched suppliers or moved home.
  • (8) Vin reminds me that we have not had a change in score since the third inning, which was eons ago.
  • (9) In his first major interview since taking office, Will Day, the incoming chair of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), told the Guardian that construction of new coal stations, such as the planned Eon Kingsnorth facility in Kent, would provide a "lightning rod" for international protest.
  • (10) However, it’s clear that Eon does its best to use British directors, reinforcing the national brand identity that is part of the Bond selling point.
  • (11) However, after a six-year break, Eon installed Martin Campbell in the chair: another experienced director, but one who was able to orchestrate one of the most elaborate stunts in Bond history.
  • (12) Frankly, producers Eon would have been better off giving the lead to Madonna’s innuendo-dispensing fencing instructor, but perhaps the idea deserves a revamp more than a decade on.
  • (13) The Sky deal comprises the 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions as well as two non-Eon movies – Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
  • (14) Don Lieper , director of new business at Eon, said: "We take this very seriously – it is a legal requirement.
  • (15) But he appeared to rule himself out in April, telling an audience at London’s British Film Institute that he had given up on getting the call from 007 production company Eon.
  • (16) Local distributor eOne was quick to trumpet this achievement as bigger than the UK opening of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m from 324 cinemas), and with a higher screen average than the debut of The King's Speech (£8,919).
  • (17) For example, the functional competence of most, if not all, of the sugar-metabolizing enzymes was clearly established before the division of eukaryotes from prokaryotes eons ago, each critical active-site amino acid sequence being conserved ever since by bacteria as well as by mammals.
  • (18) Photograph: eOne If he is indeed the nemesis of Luke Skywalker & Co, he has bodybuilder-size shoes to fill ( David Prowse , who wore the original suit, stood at 6ft 6in).
  • (19) This paper outlines the content of that core curriculum and presents EONS' subsequent plans to design educational courses in all aspects of cancer care for European nurses.
  • (20) The sites have been nominated by the energy giants EDF, Eon and RWE, and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns some nuclear sites.

Exon


Definition:

  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.
  • (n.) An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
  • (2) Therefore, we conclude this is a bovine DR beta-like pseudogene, BoDR beta I. Exon-containing regions have been used as probes in Southern blot analyses of bovine genomic DNA digested with EcoRI.
  • (3) Exons and flanking introns (greater than 14 kb) were sequenced to determine the structural organization of the gene.
  • (4) The gene is 20 kilobases (kb) long and has 11 exons, the first and second exons being separated by an intron of 10 kb.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobases (kb) of genomic DNA.
  • (7) Using a DNA insert encoding exons 2-5, the renin gene was mapped to human chromosome bands 1q25----q32 by in situ hybridization.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) In this type IIB lck transcript, 10 residues encoded by exon 1 from the new AUG codon replace the first 35 residues encoded by exon 1'.
  • (10) The nucleotide sequence and organization of the human theta 1 gene (exons, introns, promoter, and polyadenylation signals) are similar to those reported for the orangutan theta 1-globin gene.
  • (11) A comparison between the primary structures of the rat and human genes reveals that the heterogeneity of the C-terminal peptides can be explained in large part by a frameshift mutation and the utilization of an alternative splice donor site in the third exon of the rat gene.
  • (12) These fragments contain the coding exons for the EBV-determined nuclear antigens EBNA2 and EBNA1, and the membrane antigen LMP, respectively.
  • (13) This change led to an exon-skipping event resulting in a frame shift and generation of a stop codon.
  • (14) Amino- and carboxy-terminal information are contained in exons 2 and 7, respectively.
  • (15) The protein variation potentially includes N-terminal differences coded for by transcript-specific 5' exons and internal differences arising from the optional inclusion of a 39 base-pair exon and from the alternative use of two 3' splice sites separated by six base-pairs.
  • (16) Moreover, the homozygous mutation appears to cause skipping of exon 6 in the mutant E1 alpha transcript.
  • (17) DNA sequencing analysis indicated that it was 426 base pairs in size and located in close proximity to a putative c-fms exon.
  • (18) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
  • (19) Polyadenylated S14 transcripts purified from HeLa cell cytoplasma display heterogeneous 5' ends that map within noncoding RPS14 exon 1.
  • (20) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.

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