Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characterized by different colors; varicolored.
- adjective Consisting of different wavelengths or frequencies.
- adjective Of or relating to heterochromatin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or consisting of more than one color: opposed to monochromatic
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having more than one
colour - adjective Of
light , having more than onewavelength - adjective Of, or relating to
heterochromatin
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Examples
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It's a straightforward style, not overly or unnecessarily florid, but not one easily mimicked—Hollywood screenwriters are largely responsible for the tanks of irritable, flesh-hungry sharks and villains with eyes patched, deformed or heterochromatic.
You Only Live About 23 Times Michael C. Moynihan 2011
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It's a straightforward style, not overly or unnecessarily florid, but not one easily mimicked—Hollywood screenwriters are largely responsible for the tanks of irritable, flesh-hungry sharks and villains with eyes patched, deformed or heterochromatic.
You Only Live About 23 Times Michael C. Moynihan 2011
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In addition, fixed cytogenetic differences include a centromeric shift, heterochromatic differences on autosomal pairs 16, and the number of nucleolar organizer regions.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Establishment and maintenance of a heterochromatic domain.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
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In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe51,52, and later on in Drosophila and vertebrates, it was found that similar processes keep heterochromatic regions condensed and transcriptionally suppressed.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
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Regulation of heterochromatic silencing and histone H3 lysine-9 methylation by RNAi.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
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The main differences among them to be considered here relate to distributions of conspicuous heterochromatic blocks in the chromosomes of each species.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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The other placed heterochromatic segments at new locations within the chromosomes of the set.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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In this instance it is known that a heterochromatic segment in each of the two chromosomes of the otophora set contributes to these linear amplifications (26, 27).
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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It would also fit in with the findings (Muller, 1935) that the heterochromatic regions tend to have especially strong, extensive, and distinctive kinds of position effects, effects varying in degree with the total amount of heterochromatin present in a cell, as well as with vacillating embryological factors.
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