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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In terrestrial magnetism, a line or surface connecting places where the magnetic needles have equal magnetic declinations.

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  • adjective having the same genetic makeup.

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Examples

  • The worst part is that protein 1 is well-studied, there are parent and isogenic mutant strains lacking this gene, recombinant protein and monoclonal antibodies readily available.

    Archive 2009-05-01 microbiologist xx 2009

  • Unfortunately, the strains were not parent and isogenic mutant, they were just two unsequenced isolates.

    What's new pussycat? microbiologist xx 2009

  • Unfortunately, the strains were not parent and isogenic mutant, they were just two unsequenced isolates.

    Archive 2009-05-01 microbiologist xx 2009

  • The worst part is that protein 1 is well-studied, there are parent and isogenic mutant strains lacking this gene, recombinant protein and monoclonal antibodies readily available.

    What's new pussycat? microbiologist xx 2009

  • Furthermore, the isogenic fliD mutant of H. pylori SS1, a mouse-adapted strain, was not able to colonize the gastric mucosae of host mice.

    Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

  • In these experiments mix 25 breeding pairs of the mutants and otherwise isogenic mice together.

    Let's Talk Junk (Again). - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • I had decided to switch from rat to mouse as a model organism because of the advantage of using isogenic inbred strains for dissecting a multigene family, and the possibility of generating transgenic mice.

    Linda B. Buck - Autobiography 2005

  • Immortal mapping populations will be used as doubled haploids, recombinant inbred lines, nested association mapping (NAM) lines, high resolution lines, and nearly isogenic lines.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox 2010

  • P. aeruginosa isolated from the sputum differ phenotypically from the initial intermittent strains even though they produce similar pulse field gel electrophoresis patterns and therefore are considered isogenic

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • TD2 will use Horizon's panel of more than 200 genetically-defined human isogenic cell-lines

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

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