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- noun Plural form of
methyl .
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Certain genes are "silenced," or rendered inactive, when small chemical groups (methyls) bond to some of the Cs of the four-letter alphabet (TAG C) that encodes information in DNA.
Archive 2009-01-04 William Harryman 2008
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These are not mutations because the coding properties of these Cs do not change, and if methyls are removed, the genes can become active again.
Archive 2009-01-04 William Harryman 2008
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I guess, a bit like some small molecules force fields do for methyls.
German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2006: Day 3 Egon Willighagen 2006
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I guess, a bit like some small molecules force fields do for methyls.
Archive 2006-11-01 Egon Willighagen 2006
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Bernard, it is especially important, in the dry distillation of distiller's wash in a closed vessel, for the production of methyls, ammonia, acetates, and methylamine, that the mass shall be divided as completely as possible, since it then takes but a relatively moderate heat to completely destroy the organic coloring matter contained in the wash.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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