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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing
degradation
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Examples
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The genes encoding the degradative pathway were identified within a 27-kb region of DNA cloned from Burkholderia cepacia R34, a strain that grows using 2,4-DNT as a sole carbon, energy, and nitrogen source.
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Name calling ... insulting, degradative remarks ... and crude public attacks are beneath the dignity of both of these national campaigners.
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As Behe notes, it is "another example of a beneficial mutation turning out to be a degradative mutation."
Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008
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First, that even beneficial mutations are very often degradative mutations.
Scientists' Responses Solicited James F. McGrath 2008
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As Behe notes, it is "another example of a beneficial mutation turning out to be a degradative mutation."
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The harmful PrPSc form is very resistant to high temperatures, UV-irradiation and strong degradative enzymes.
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These substrates are obtained through a series of degradative steps that involve a variety of bacteria (6 11).
Chapter 15 1979
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Wakabayashi K, Nakagawa H, Tamura A, Koshiba S, Hoshijima K, et al. (2007) Intramolecular disulfide bond is a critical check point determining degradative fates of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter ABCG2 protein.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Virginie Renaud et al. 2010
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Modified proteins can be removed by a number of degradative pathways, including the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Nicholas A. Bishop 2010
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It is RUN by homosexuals and other males that hate women, and love to degrade them into stereotyped, sexual degradative roles.
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