In this passage, weolocread has been deemed appropriate for bothscarletand purple or, possibly, crimson.
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A trans-acting regulatory gene that inversely affects the expression of the white, brown andscarletloci.
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Under a black blue sun, the twig turnsscarlet, separating itself from trunk.
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Whoever we would brand with thescarletletter, it is on every breast, including our own.
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Thescarletwould pass away from his lips, and the gold steal from his hair.
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Two related genes,scarletand brown, were significantly affected as well in early pupae.
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This sign is similar to that seen inscarletfever.
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Deaths from ' contagious diseases of childhood ' like measles andscarletfever show a spring incidence.
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Jalland focuses on two case studies of families violently struck byscarletfever.
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War, famine, epidemics of typhus, cholera andscarletfever, atrocities committed on every side, all combined to render families prostrate, in both cities and countryside.
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The first statistical compilation based on these revised inventories related to 1866 and focused on just six diseases : smallpox,scarletfever, measles, typhus, angina diphtheria, and cholera.
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Prendick's fussy scientific vocabulary cannot disguise the implication that life in general is an inhuman(e) affair "scarlet" with blood and, because inseparable from non-life, of no definitive status.
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Bede may have wondered why only imported, (supposedly) whelk-dyed fabrics werescarlet, but it would be easy to assume a wider range from an exotic whelk.
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Brighter still are the crimson and carmine, both of which, before the invention of synthetic dye, were obtained from the dried body of thescarletgrain insect, al-qirmiz.
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Within a week of the explosion the regiment ordered new instruments andscarletuniforms.
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