(n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
(n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
(n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
(n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
(n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
(n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
(n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Example Sentences:
(1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(4) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(5) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(6) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
(7) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(8) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(9) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
(10) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(11) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(12) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
(13) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(14) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
(15) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(16) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(17) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
(18) The alpha-ketoglutarate generated is reduced with glutamate dehydrogenase and NADH.
(19) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
(20) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
Progeny
Definition:
(n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(2) (E)-5-(2-Bromovinyl)uridine (BVUrd), the riboside counterpart of (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (BVdUrd), effected a dose-dependent inhibition of viral progeny formation and viral DNA synthesis in herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1, strain KOS)-infected human (E6SM) diploid fibroblast cells.
(3) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(4) In the progeny of the surviving males, neither translocations nor independent fragments are found; indirect evidence indicated the occasional presence of inversions.
(5) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
(6) Thus, the progeny of infected primitive multipotential cells are competent to express integrated proviruses.
(7) The finding of idiotype diversity in the PC response, as well as diversity of expression in terms of quantity and immunoglobulin class of antibody synthesized by the clonal progeny of B cells within the TEPC 15 clonotype, emphasize the heterogeneity of the B-cell population both in terms of specificity repertoire and the physiological state of cells even within a single clonotype.
(8) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(9) A significant increase of tumour frequency was detected in the progeny of these rats.
(10) It was found that the frequency of microphthalmia and anophthalmia in the female progeny of mice fed Mouse Chow was 7.4-9.2% in B10.A and B10.BR, 4.0-5.5% in B10.A(18R), B10, B10.A(5R), B10.A(1R), B10.A(15R), and B10.A(2R), and 0.8% and 1.4% in B10.D2 and B10.OL mice, respectively.
(11) The specific cellular defects in patched mutants suggests that this gene specifies a subset of neuroblasts and neural progeny underlying the region of epidermal pattern defect.
(12) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(13) The progeny exposed to DES prenatally and DMBA postnatally (DES-DMBA-exposed progeny) developed a greater multiplicity of tumors per tumor-bearing animal (p less than 0.001) and higher rates of neoplasms of the reproductive tract, e.g., ovarian and uterine tumors, mammary gland and forestomach tumors, and dermal melanomas.
(14) 6 pregnancies were carried to term, and all progeny were normal, based on physical examination at birth or 3 months after.
(15) The SF were derived from normal appearing subepidermoid biopsies of ACR individuals, their progeny and ocntrols.
(16) Defective H genomes were present in the progeny virus two passages after transfection.
(17) A germ line mutation causing a tumour ('tumour mutation') is weakly carcinogenic by itself, but it is strongly expressed in the progeny after postnatal treatment with a small dose of the carcinogenesis promoting agent urethane.
(18) In the case of LTC-IC, the production of different types of lineage-restricted and multipotent progeny was also analyzed.
(19) Sequence analysis of progeny of untreated plasmids containing putative point mutations showed insertions and deletions of bases and a broad spectrum of base substitutions; in those from BPDE-treated plasmids, all base substitutions involved guanosine .
(20) Using this assay the kinetics of appearance of the progeny of transfused bone marrow and spleen cells in the thymus of irradiated (760 R) mice has been studied.