(n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each plasmid contained the structural genes sorA for an Enzyme II of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate:phosphotransferase system, sorD for a D-glucitol 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, sorE for an L-sorbose 1-phosphate reductase, and the corresponding regulator gene sorR.
(2) The structural genes sorD, sorA and sorE code for a D-glucitol-6-P dehydrogenase (27 kilodalton (kD)), an Enzymell (EllSor) activity specific for L-sorbose and an L-sorbose-1-P reductase (45kD).
(3) n. is described from the nasal turbinates of the sora, Porzana carolina, collected in Maryland and Ohio.
(4) They form an operon (gene order sorCpCDFBAME) inducible by L-sorbose, and their products have the following functions: SorC (36 kDa), regulatory protein with repressor-activator functions; SorD (29 kDa), D-glucitol-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; SorF and SorB (14 and 19 kDa, respectively), and SorA and SorM (27 and 29 kDa, respectively), two soluble and two membrane-bound proteins, respectively, of an L-sorbose phosphotransferase transport system; SorE (45 kDa), sorbose-1-phosphate reductase.
(5) The huge public reservoir in this regional centre has been empty for months and, according to Molu Duka Sora, local director of the government's Arid Lands programme, all the major boreholes in the vast semi-desert area are failing one by one.
Sori
Definition:
(n.) pl. of Sorus.
(pl. ) of Sorus
Example Sentences:
(1) On the eve of Charles Taylor's conviction for "aiding and abetting" such attacks as he and his allies sought control of lucrative diamond fields, Sorie maintained his silence.
(2) Sorie Sawanah, a former taxi driver, had his arm chopped off by drug-crazed child soldiers rampaging through Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, in 1999.
(3) "I don't want to recall them days," Sorie said, covering his face with a shaking hand.
(4) Sorie Sawanah, reached by phone as dusk approached in Freetown, finally broke his silence.
(5) The risk factors for acute malnutrition retained after logistical regression are the age groups of 6-17 months and 18-29 months, the areas of Guidan Roumdji, Tahoua, Tajae, Guidan Sori and the group of children that have contracted diarrhea during the 15 days preceding the survey.
(6) Blinding caused involution of the testes and acces sory sex organs, and decreased pituitary prolactin levels.
(7) The formation of secondary sori in whorls of Polysphondylium pallidum provides an attractive model system for the study of symmetry breaking during morphogenesis.
(8) Sorie's son Ibrahim had nightmares for years about the scene he witnessed cowering behind a bush.
(9) Sory Diakite, the mayor of Konna, says the dead included children who drowned after they threw themselves into a river in an effort to escape the bombs.
(10) To be sure, it would be necessary to collect sori, clusters of sporangia, from sexually mature plants.
(11) Sorie Sawanah, a former taxi driver, rarely speaks about the day he became one of the statistics of the brutal "Operation No Living Thing", when drug-crazed child soldiers rampaged through Freetown in 1999.