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  • adjective genetics Not homologous.

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  • Quiescent cells, on the other hand, use a mechanism known as nonhomologous end joining-mediated DNA repair, which often leads to misrepair of double strand breaks in the

    innovations-report 2010

  • Quiescent cells, on the other hand, use a mechanism known as nonhomologous end joining-mediated DNA repair, which often leads to misrepair of double strand breaks in the

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • They found that lithium did not prevent the generation of DSBs but promoted a particular kind of DNA repair - called nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) repair - which is the predominant repair mechanism used by normal neurons.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • They found that lithium did not prevent the generation of DSBs but promoted a particular kind of DNA repair - called nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) repair - which is the predominant repair mechanism used by normal neurons.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • A primary factor in speciation has been chromosome restructuring as synapsis between structural chromosome heterozygotes invariably leads to some sterility because crossing over in the nonhomologous regions leads to the production of unbalanced, non functional gametes.

    Javison Does Chimpanzees? « UDreamOfJanie 2006

  • If all life has two nonhomologous enzymes what is the selective pressure to keep both functional?

    The Last Universal Common Ancestor - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Also recall that death for humans but not mosquitos, for which death is nonhomologous is when the spiritual soul is divorced from the physical organism, and hence once God get's a soul going, to snuff it at any point is to commit murder, whether you do so pre- or post-natally, macro- or microscopically.

    Stem Cell Research Is Not Murder 2005

  • All life has two different completely nonhomologous enzymes.

    The Last Universal Common Ancestor - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The first is scientific and tends as just stated to better understand what nature does in its nonhomologous genetic exchange.

    Werner Arber - Autobiography 1979

  • It is often unclear whether analogy is meant to be restricted to nonhomologous structures.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968

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