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	Barbara Barbara ♀ From Latin, meaning ‘foreign woman’ (a feminine form of barbarus ‘foreign’, from Greek, referring originally to the unintelligible chatter of foreigners, which sounded to the Greek ear like no more than bar-bar). St Barbara has always been one of the... Read more
	Agatha Agatha ♀ Latinized version of the Greek name Agathē, from the feminine form of the adjective agathos ‘good, honourable’. This was the name of a Christian saint popular in the Middle Ages; she was a Sicilian martyr of the 3rd century who suffered the fate of having her... Read more
	saint saint [O.Fr., from Latin sanctus =holy], in Christianity, a person who is recognized as worthy of veneration. Nature of Sainthood In the Hebrew Scriptures God is "the Holy One" or "one who is holy" (Isa. 1.4; 5.19; 41.14). "His people share His holiness" (Ex. 19.6). To the New... Read more
	histone histone , any of a class of protein molecules found in the chromosomes of eukaryotic cells . They complex with the DNA (see nucleic acid ) and pack the DNA into tight masses of chromatin, which have the structure of coiled coils, much like a tangled telephone cord. The molecules are strongly... Read more
	beat generation beat generation term applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and beatific... Read more
	Saint Augustine of Canterbury Saint Augustine of Canterbury ô´gestēn, -tĬn; ôgŭs´tĬn , d. c.605, Italian missionary, called the Apostle of the English, first archbishop of Canterbury (from 601). A Roman monk, he was sent to England, as the head of some 40 monks, by Pope St. Gregory I.... Read more
	Saint Maximus Saint Maximus c.580-662, Greek theologian. He was secretary to Emperor Heraclius and subsequently abbot at the monastery of Chrysopolis. To curb Monotheletism he went to Rome and persuaded Pope St. Martin I to convene the synod of 649, which denounced as heretical the Typus of Emperor... Read more
	Epistasis Epistasis Epistasis, first defined by the English geneticist William Bateson in 1907, is the masking of the expression of a gene at one position in a chromosome, or locus , at one or more genes at other positions. Epistasis should not be confused with dominance, which refers to the interaction of... Read more