Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A point mutation in which a purine is replaced by a pyrimidine, or a pyrimidine is replaced by a purine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of transversing. See
transverse , v.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun genetics A
point mutation in which apurine is replaced with apyrimidine , or vice versa - noun literature The changing from
prose intoverse , or verse into prose.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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'Conversion' of consciousness into time, space, energy, life etc. may be referred to as transversion, as conversion in general, connotes change of matter to matter or merely matter to energy
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The BRAFT1799A transversion is the most frequent morphotype-specific somatic mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Current Issue Cradic, K. W., Milosevic, D., Rosenberg, A. M., Er 2009
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'Conversion' of consciousness into time, space, energy, life etc. may be referred to as transversion, as conversion in general, connotes change of matter to matter or merely matter to energy & energy to matter.
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'Conversion' of consciousness into time, space, energy, life etc. may be referred to as transversion, as conversion in general, connotes change of matter to matter or merely matter to energy & energy to matter.
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'Conversion' of consciousness into time, space, energy, life etc. may be referred to as transversion, as conversion in general, connotes change of matter to matter or merely matter to energy & energy to matter.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows guestf91103 2009
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Activation and/or deactivation of distinct genes (possible candidates: SpoT, recA, LexA) in response to various stresses will result in the downstream regulation of specific DNA replication machinery and mismatch repair mechanisms, resulting in a shift towards a specific transversion and/or transition mutation frequency in affected genes.
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The shift in transition and transversion mutation frequency is not random, but as a result of a controlled response.
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Epigenetic control of transversion and transition mutations and their effect on protein geometry and functionality.
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Salvador T. Cordova: But why insist on that being the rate, were talking mutations pertaining to amino acids, and it ain't quite so easy when we consider transistions vs. transversion and then the specific codons involved.
Behe Responds 2007
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But why insist on that being the rate, were talking mutations pertaining to amino acids, and it ain't quite so easy when we consider transistions vs. transversion and then the specific codons involved.
Behe Responds 2007
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