cash, hard cash, hard currency - money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" 6. change - a thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one" thing - an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the...
CNVs form at a faster rate than other types of mutation, and seem to do so by similar mechanisms in bacteria, yeast and humans. Here we review current models of the mechanisms that cause copy number variation. Non-homologous end-joining mechanisms are well known, but recent models focus on...
The male is poised to become female and rapidly changes sex to assume the vacated position, while the largest undifferentiated fish completes the breeding pair by turning into a mature male in a short time4,8. This ability allows the formation of a new breeding pair, preventing the need for...
hormone: chemical produced in one part of an organism and transported to another part, where it causes a physiological change • Describe the molecular structures of alkenes and alkynes. • Name an alkene or alkyne by examining its structure. • Draw the structure of an alkene or alkyne ...
The images in Rist’s 16-minute-long video loop remix the colors of Fauvism, the fragmented form of Cubism and modernism’s juicy jarring nudes. Rist’s quasi-narrative is pleasure, politics and biology. In an interview she talks to curator Klaus Biesenbach about "our deepest craving to be...
in the form of Old High German and Old Low German. These languages are both far more similar to Anglo-Saxon than modern English is to contemporary German. Thus one could actually observe a convergence as one went back in time, the mirror image as it were of the hypothetical divergence in...
Table 3 Comparison of linear models to test whether demography (in the form of intrinsic growth rate µ, carrying capacity K and interaction coefficient α) can be explained by the response in mean or variance of the strategy index (Δmean and Δvariance, respectively) and if this effect di...
Sequential hermaphroditism is a unique reproductive strategy among teleosts that is displayed mainly in fish species living in the coral reef environment. The reproductive biology of hermaphrodites has long been intriguing; however, very little is known
An unexpected change in spatial pattern across 10 years in an aspen-white-pine forest 1 The change in spatial pattern due to mortality over a period of 10 years was examined in a c. 60-year-old second-growth aspen-white-pine forest in northe......
The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being. Change To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; switch Change methods. Change sides. Modification (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in...