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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing degradation

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Examples

  • The genes encoding the degradative pathway were identified within a 27-kb region of DNA cloned from Burkholderia cepacia R34, a strain that grows using 2,4-DNT as a sole carbon, energy, and nitrogen source.

    Casey Luskin on Kitzmiller & Information 2010

  • Name calling ... insulting, degradative remarks ... and crude public attacks are beneath the dignity of both of these national campaigners.

    McCain, Obama! You Call Yourselves World Leaders? 2008

  • As Behe notes, it is "another example of a beneficial mutation turning out to be a degradative mutation."

    Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008

  • First, that even beneficial mutations are very often degradative mutations.

    Scientists' Responses Solicited James F. McGrath 2008

  • As Behe notes, it is "another example of a beneficial mutation turning out to be a degradative mutation."

    Drive-by smackdown, Denyse O'Leary flavour. CC 2008

  • The harmful PrPSc form is very resistant to high temperatures, UV-irradiation and strong degradative enzymes.

    From Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde 1997

  • These substrates are obtained through a series of degradative steps that involve a variety of bacteria (6 11).

    Chapter 15 1979

  • Wakabayashi K, Nakagawa H, Tamura A, Koshiba S, Hoshijima K, et al. (2007) Intramolecular disulfide bond is a critical check point determining degradative fates of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter ABCG2 protein.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Virginie Renaud et al. 2010

  • Modified proteins can be removed by a number of degradative pathways, including the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Nicholas A. Bishop 2010

  • It is RUN by homosexuals and other males that hate women, and love to degrade them into stereotyped, sexual degradative roles.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

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