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1. In genetics, the chromosome structure consisting entirely of nonhistone proteins remaining after all the DNA and histone proteins have been removed from a chromosome.2. In genomic mapping, a series of contigs that are in the right order…
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- Wilkins, Lawson American physician (1894-1963) who founded pediatric endocrinology. At Johns Hopkins Medical School in…
- Twilight sleep Sleep: A term applied to the combination of analgesia (pain relief) and amnesia (loss of memory) produced by…
- Mortality rate, infant The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…
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- Imitrex Brand name for sumatriptan, a triptan drug for the treatment of migraine
- Sequence, intervening An intervening sequence is the part of a gene that is initially transcribed from the DNA into RNA…
- Pathogenic Causing disease or capable of doing it. Pathogenic bacteria are disease-causing bacteria. For example…
- Test, sweat See: Sweat test