genetic instructions

collocation in English

meaningsofgeneticandinstruction

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genetic
adjective
uk
/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us
/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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instruction
noun
uk
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈstrʌk.ʃən/
something that someone tells you ...
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(Definition ofgeneticandinstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a carefully crafted account of thegeneticinstructionmanual and the mutational errors that teach us about the making of the human body.
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Ewald says that "chronic diseases, if they are common and damaging, must be powerful eliminators of anygeneticinstructionthat may cause them".
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No longer directly concerned with transfer of genetic instructions, information appears as a library of ready-to-serve lymphocytes.
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They can mate (exchange genetic instructions), mutate, compete and evolve.
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One alternative could be that the property allegedly identified as an attractor state has been pre-wired in the system, for instance in the form of particular genetic instructions.
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Genes are the genetic instructions for creating a protein, and are composed of introns and exons.
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Their technology platform is based on manipulation of the genetic instructions of microbes for making natural product polyketides.
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The researchers concluded the genetic instructions to make dogs small must be at least 12,000 years old, and it is not found in wolves.
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This mystery was the question of how it is possible that genetic instructions are held inside organisms and how they are passed from generation to generation.
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Palindromic motifs are made by the order of the nucleotides that specify the complex chemicals (proteins) which, as a result of those genetic instructions, the cell is to produce.
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Palindromic motifs are made by the order of the nucleotides that specify the complex chemicals (proteins) that, as a result of those genetic instructions, the cell is to produce.
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