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  • noun Plural form of duplication.

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Examples

  • Steve, or a person with a duplication of a part of a chromosome, resulting in duplications of scores or hundreds of genes (very common, it turns out).

    Behe's Test, Take 2 2008

  • Consider a person with only one good copy of the CFTR gene (that person is a carrier of cystic fibrosis), or a person with a duplication of a part of a chromosome, resulting in duplications of scores or hundreds of genes (very common, it turns out).

    Behe's Test, Take 2 2008

  • The login should use AJAX to check for username duplications, email's, drop down list selection and CAPTCHA. i3.

    GetAFreelancer.com - New Projects 2009

  • In addition to modifying gene action, these elements can restructure the genome at various levels, from small changes involving a few nucleotides, to gross modifications involving large segments of chromosomes, such as duplications, deficiencies, inversions, and other more complex reorganizations.

    Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983

  • New information is not produced by duplications, rearrangements and insertions of the words in the dictionary but by design in the mind of authors.

    David Anderson on Creation and Evolution 2009

  • After all, books are just duplications, rearrangements and insertions of the words in the dictionary.

    David Anderson on Creation and Evolution 2009

  • New information is not produced by duplications, rearrangements and insertions of the words in the dictionary but by design in the mind of authors.

    David Anderson on Creation and Evolution 2009

  • Someone would have to coordinate and label them to prevent duplications.

    Labels’ back catalogues already belong to us! 2009

  • New information is not produced by duplications, rearrangements and insertions of the words in the dictionary but by design in the mind of authors.

    David Anderson on Creation and Evolution 2009

  • After all, books are just duplications, rearrangements and insertions of the words in the dictionary.

    David Anderson on Creation and Evolution 2009

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