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Legacy

Legacy

Pl.Legacies. [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. Legat legacy. See Legate.

1. A gift of property by will, especially. Of money or personal property; a bequest. Also fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore i am sent into the world. (Tyndale) He came and told his legacy. (Chapman) legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.


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... so this will not make any sense but for someone who has http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733669/?page=1 150 years later Darwins poison legacy lives on. They started the science journal nature, every thing you ever see on TV (Documentaries (Attenbourough is an evolutionist) on nature) ...

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by jinx25
Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:55 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: mutations and dependencies
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cancer spread biology?

... UC Berkeley, Calif, USA. 122E; 1990. 18. Wu, Xutain. Chinese Beijing Association of Qigung Science Research, Beijing, China [1]. Qigong, ancient legacy in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. 1st Int Cong of Qigong. UC Berkeley, Calif, USA. 127E; 1990. 19. Guan, Yuanchao. Shanghai Translation ...

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by suzidoc8
Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:10 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: cancer spread biology?
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Immortality? Possibility?

Also think about the concept of kids. It won't be to have children as a way to take over the role of the family legacy. It will be another person being brought into this reality, and they will now take resources that may be your chance to survive (assuming that we still have to ...

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by kolean
Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:17 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Immortality? Possibility?
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Re: splicing MO vs translation MO

... These are the five mispair experiment, the mRNA rescue experiment and the two-nonoverlapping-oligo experiment. The five mispair experiment is a legacy from the early days of antisense (the 1980s) when this was the standard specificity test, insisted on by all reviewers. The problem is that the ...

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by jonmoulton
Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:47 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: splicing MO vs translation MO
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Can this text be A BASE FOR RESEARCH ?

... galactic experience, Eve and Adam had to choose counterparts to who they might make live fusion so that once they were dead the divine galactic legacy would continue: Once dead, Adam and Eve will be able to be reborn and educated by counterparts that know the divine, so that the legacy continue. ...

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by schizophrenicsinner
Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:50 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Can this text be A BASE FOR RESEARCH ?
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