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Transvection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of conveying or carrying over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chromosomal rearrangements which disrupt transvection possess a breakpoint in a particular segment of the chromosome arm bearing the transvection-sensitive gene (arm 2L for the DDP-C and 3R for the BX-C); this segment of each arm has been termed the critical region by Lewis (1954).
  • (2) The zeste gene product is required for transvection effects that imply the ability of regulatory elements on one chromosome to affect the expression of the homologous gene in a somatically paired chromosome.
  • (3) The factor Dichaete (D3) permits easier scoring of the transvection phenotype.
  • (4) Possible mechanisms for the trans-acting effect of niv-525 and its relationship to other examples of allelic interactions, such as transvection in Drosophila melanogaster, are discussed.
  • (5) These results indicate that both the zeste-white interaction and transvection effects require the formation of high order aggregates.
  • (6) We discuss the normal cis regulatory role of these functions involved in trans interactions between homologous Ubx genes, as well as the implications of our results for the current models on transvection.
  • (7) Only Cbx2 and CbxIRM (a revertant of Cbx1) show synapsis-dependent gene expression ("transvection").
  • (8) These recent observations continue a history of studies concerning zeste and transvection which has inspired molecular models linking chromosome structure and positioning to the modulation of gene expression.
  • (9) Somatic transfer of genomic imprinting between homologs by means of a transvection-like process between paired Tme and T loci is proposed as a model to explain the results obtained.
  • (10) We show that this domain is responsible for the extensive aggregation properties of zeste that are required for its role in transvection phenomena.
  • (11) A new adaptation of the bithorax transvection method by Mendelson permits the recovery of high yields of chromosome aberrations in a fast one-generation test.
  • (12) We have confirmed that, although the Ubx1 allele does not produce detectable Ubx proteins (UBX), it does retain other genetic functions detectable by their effects on the expression of a paired, homologous Ubx allele, i.e., by transvection.
  • (13) The conditions necessary for each transvection effect were determined from these transvection groups.
  • (14) The genetic properties of the proximity-dependent allelic complementation (termed transvection effects) at the BX-C and DPP-C, are quite similar.
  • (15) Transvection was explained by trans-activation of promoter in y2-allele by enhancer of y1-allele.
  • (16) The bithorax34e mutation only transvects with Ultrabithorax mutations with a contiguous Ultrabithorax transcriptional unit.
  • (17) The zeste gene product is involved in two types of genetic effects dependent on chromosome pairing: transvection and the zeste-white interaction.
  • (18) Special attention is paid to the transvection effect (synapsis-dependent interaction between white and zeste genes), cis-acting regulatory elements and the behaviour of the white genes introduced into the genome by P element-mediated DNA transformation.
  • (19) Surprisingly, previous genetic experiments indicate that zeste is a nonessential gene shown only to act in a dispensable regulatory process termed transvection.
  • (20) One can discriminate between otherwise phenotypically similar mutations via their transvection behavior.

Witch


Definition:

  • (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
  • (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
  • (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
  • (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
  • (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  • (n.) The stormy petrel.
  • (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
  • (3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
  • (5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
  • (6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
  • (7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
  • (8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
  • (9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
  • (10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
  • (11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
  • (12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
  • (13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
  • (14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
  • (15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
  • (16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
  • (17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
  • (18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
  • (20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.

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