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transposable elements transposable elements
transposable elements A chromosomal locus that may be transposed from one spot to another within and among the chromosomes of the complement. The process occurs through breakage on either side of these loci and their subsequent insertion into a new point either on the same or a different chromosome.... Read more
corno alto corno alto
corno alto and corno basso (It.). High horn and low horn. 1. Old names for hn. players who specialized in the high and low registers respectively. (In early 19th-cent. Fr. there was a middle category, cor mixte.)2. In modern scores the terms are used to distinguish, e.g. the horn in B♭ which... Read more
transposing instrument transposing instrument
transposing instrument a musical instrument whose part in a score is written at a different pitch than that actually sounded. Such an instrument is usually referred to by the keynote of its natural scale—the clarinet in A, for example—in which case A is sounded when the tone C appears... Read more
Cholesky Decomposition Cholesky Decomposition
Cholesky Decomposition BIBLIOGRAPHY The Cholesky decomposition factorizes a positive definite matrix A into a lower triangular matrix L and its transpose, L’ : A = LL Read more
Retrotransposons Retrotransposons
Transposable Genetic Elements Transposable genetic elements (TEs) are segments of DNA that can be integrated into new chromosomal (genomic) locations either through direct DNA transfer (transposons), or via an RNA intermediate (retrotransposons). Pseudonyms for TEs include mobile elements, jumping... Read more
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock 1902-92, American geneticist. She discovered that certain genetic material, "transposable elements" or "jumping genes" (now called transposons), shifted its location in the chromosomes from generation to generation. At first ignored, her research was later recognized as a... Read more
hybrid dysgenesis hybrid dysgenesis
hybrid dysgenesis Infertility and an increased incidence of chromosome mutations that is observed in the progeny of laboratory-reared organisms crossed with wild organisms. Hybrid dysgenesis has been best studied in strains of Drosophila fruit flies, when laboratory females are crossed with wild... Read more
English horn English horn
English horn musical instrument, the alto of the oboe family, pitched a fifth lower than the oboe and treated as a transposing instrument . It has a pear-shaped bell, giving it a soft, melancholy tone. The first important parts for it were written by Rossini in William Tell (1829) and by... Read more
Gematria Gematria
Gematria A form of numerology. In Jewish mysticism gematria was the study of Hebrew letters in association with numbers. The method was used to discover hidden meanings in Hebrew words. Prominent words could be systematically converted into numbers and linked to other words with the same... Read more

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