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  • I will be working with a nucleo of 7 schools, and soaking up the valley culture as much as possible.

    Sucre bound!! « Wanderings 2008

  • In a dynamic universe, climate is always changing, due to forces that are beyond our control, such as orbital dynamics and solar nucleo - thermodynamics.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Recently, Susan Siman, the head of El Sistema's biggest nucleo and the former teacher of Maestro Dudamel, rehearsed the kids for their big concert at the Hollywood Bowl on October 3, during which Dudamel will conduct their performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy.

    Lucia Brawley: El Sistema in LA 2009

  • - To form a nucleo of ongoing national consultations and discussions on SADC related issues,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Some amino acid substitutions cannot be made by altering a single nucleotide, but would require the simultaneous alter - ation of two or three nucleotides; or else, since nucleo - tide substitutions must usually occur one at a time, intermediate proteins with an amino acid different from both the first and final form, must have existed.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968

  • This possibility is a consequence of the fact that codons are triplets, and an amino acid sequence is specified by a sequence of triplets in which the nucleo tides are “read” from a specific starting point, three at a time.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968

  • The first author who gives any account of the substance is Father Ange, who, in his 'Pharmacopoea Persica [H],' describes it in the following terms: -- "Est autem istud medicamentum veluti _tragea_ ex nucleo pistacii integro confecta; nam revera saccharum istud exterius corrugatum et agglomeratum adhæret cuidam nucleo, in quo non fructus, sed vermiculus quidam nigricans Persice _C-hezoukek_ bombycis instar reconditur et moritur."

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Certain ones (the nucleo-proteids from grains) also contain phosphorus.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • It claims even to have established Virchow's generalization (1858) Omnis cellula ex cellula, and even Flemming's further advance (1882), Omnis nucleus e nucleo.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • This was supplemented a little later by Fleming's Omnis nucleus e nucleo, when still more refined methods of observation had shown that the part of the cell which always first undergoes change preparatory to new cell-formation is the all-essential nucleus.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

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