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- Wildervanck syndrome A syndrome characterized by the combination of congenital deafness, Duane syndrome (eye retraction), and…
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- Triglycerides The major form of fat. A triglyceride consists of three molecules of fatty acid combined with a molecule of…
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- Facultative heterochromatin Chromosome material that can be either heterochromatin or euchromatin. The inactive X chromosome is made up…
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