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- adverb In an
obligate manner
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Examples
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It was actually great good luck that the green fluorescent protein from jellyfish was not nearly as obligately multimeric as the corals were.
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The 1st one is by Labandeira & Beall 1990:...we consider a "terrestrial organism" to be one that is obligately adapted to land; facultative behavioral adaptation of marine arthropods to a land-based existence is technically excluded...
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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The 1st one is by Labandeira & Beall 1990:...we consider a "terrestrial organism" to be one that is obligately adapted to land; facultative behavioral adaptation of marine arthropods to a land-based existence is technically excluded...
What is a terrestrial animal? AYDIN 2008
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One way in which we might express this is by saying that organisms serve as a locus of control, a source of their own agency, in a way in which neither non-living things nor obligately-dependent living things do.
The Biological Notion of Individual Wilson, Robert A. 2007
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In this report, we describe a novel class of putative transposases related to IS200/IS605 transposase family and we demonstrate that they are obligately associated with bacterial REPs.
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In this report, we describe a novel class of putative transposases related to IS200/IS605 transposase family and we demonstrate that they are obligately associated with bacterial REPs.
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Most biologists use the term parasitoid to refer only to insects with this type of life history, but some argue the term should be used more embrasively to include parasitic nematodes, seed weevils, and certain bacteria and viruses (e.g., bacteriophages), all of which obligately destroy their host.
Les Jones 2009
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It never ceases to amaze me that Dems so obligately believe in the Keynesian multiplier myth.
Latest Articles 2009
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Mormons may be low-tax Republicans, but those in good standing tithe a very large proportion of their income obligately in their private life (10\% from what I recall), while the church runs itself like a corporation which has economies of scale.
Gene Expression 2008
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Mormons may be low-tax Republicans, but those in good standing tithe a very large proportion of their income obligately in their private life (10\% from what I recall), while the church runs itself like a corporation which has economies of scale.
Gene Expression 2008
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