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revertent
/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/
noun 3adj 1
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3ADJ.
disgusting, observed, occasional, opposing, restored
REVERTENT + NOUN
colonies, compensates, fibres, nucleotide, virus
PREP.
except, in, in
Definitions
adj
1
Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.
As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.
The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
noun
1
A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
2
Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
3
A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.
A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
In all cases where the original inactivating mutation disrupted a base pair in the putative secondary structure of the site, in the revertent, the opposing nucleotide in the base pair mutated to restore pairing.
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As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.
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The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
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Histochemical staining using antibodies to N, C and rod domain epitopes of dystrophin usually show complete absence of the protein, except for occasional revertent fibres (there are fibres which label
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Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
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A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
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In all cases where the original inactivating mutation disrupted a base pair in the putative secondary structure of the site, in the revertent, the opposing nucleotide in the base pair mutated to resto
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