(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
(a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
(a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
(a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
(a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 2 weeks, the native and heterotopic pituitaries were assayed for SP, TSH, PRL, and LH.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(4) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
(5) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(6) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(7) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(8) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(11) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(12) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(13) 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterize these proteins and to compare them to one another and to native antithrombin III.
(14) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(15) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(16) Binding of uPA to filters was blocked by a synthetic oligopeptide containing the known receptor binding region of native uPA.
(17) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(18) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(19) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
(20) Single-stranded circles did not form if a limited number of nucleotides were removed from the 3' ends of native molecules by Escherichia coli exonuclease III digestion prior to denaturation and annealing.
Prehistoric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
Example Sentences:
(1) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(2) Trephination dates from prehistoric neolithic times (10,000-7000 B.C.)
(3) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(4) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(5) These results suggest that Wilson bands are an indicator of the relative proportion of individuals who are high susceptibles in prehistoric populations.
(6) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(7) Comparisons of these ancient Sri Lankans with other prehistoric skeletal series from South Asia and elsewhere support the hypothesis that muscular-skeletal robusticity was a significant physical adaptation of earlier hunting-foraging populations.
(8) In case of the boy from Basta 1, this would the earliest evidence for the occurrence of this type of sexual delinquency in prehistoric times.
(9) The possibility of obtaining information on growth and development from prehistoric and early historic skeletal remains of children and juveniles is discussed.
(10) Abraded grooves have been observed on the anterior teeth of all the adults in a small population of prehistoric California Indians.
(11) According to Chinese classical literature on materia medica, the early uses were limited to the parts of the plant which met the most obvious needs of the prehistorical people in their struggle for existence-food and pain reliever.
(12) This reduction in size is one of the most important criteria for distinguishing prehistoric domestic livestock from their wild forms.
(13) Reasons for the existing lack of anthropological data on the subject are suggested, and the potential usefulness of representative surveys of large samples of prehistoric populations is stressed.
(14) Samples of innominates from three prehistoric Amerindian populations were used.
(15) Within North American prehistoric Indian populations, increasing brachycephalization and the possible development of a larger, broader face are two structural trends that can be identified.
(16) This result is different than that in some other prehistoric native American populations, where tibia CSMI increases with age in both sexes.
(17) Our objective in this study was to determine whether the prevalences of periodontal diseases, coronal caries, and root caries for prehistoric inhabitants vary between geochemical regions of the state of Missouri.
(18) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(19) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
(20) The comparative analysis of parasitological findings illustrates the effects of changing subsistence strategies and varying life-style on prehistoric human parasitism.