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Dictionary » R » Rare Rarerare 1. Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event. 2. Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found. Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. (Cowley) Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. (Dryden) 3. Thinly scattered; dispersed. Those rare and solitary, three in flocks. (milton) 4. Characterised by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations. Water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer, than gold. (Sir I. Newton) Synonym: Scarce, infrequent, unusual, uncommon, singular, extraordinary, incomparable. Rare, Scarce. We call a thing rare when but few examples, specimens, or instances of it are ever to be met with; as, a rare plant. We speak of a thing as scarce, which, though usually abundant, is for the time being to be had only in diminished quantities; as, a bad harvest makes corn scarce. A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world. (Burke) When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor. (Addison) Origin: F, fr. L. Rarus thin, rare. ![]()
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Results from our forumPyrosequencing... (it is not certain, that a C for example always changes to G, it could be T or A at a much lower frequency). But then: Should I include those rare variants too in the dispensation order? Another thing, which mode should I use to design such assays: SNP, AQ, SQA?
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Hermaphrodite Reproduction... question of a human hermaphrodite impregnating his/herself came up. With minimal research we came to the conclusion that it would be exceedingly rare- the wiki on true hermaphroditism even states that "although fertility is possible in true hermaphrodites (as of 2008 there have been at least ...
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Genetics Homeworkkk!!! PLEASE HELPSuch tetrahybrid would behave like trihybrid, because the two loci are like one (with very, very, very rare cases of crossing-over in between)
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Re: aneuploidy and polyploidy... are genetic mutations then you can expect the chromosomes to not match up i guess. If that makes sense... :?: :?: The fact that it is extremely rare for humans, and only normally observed in hermaphroditic animals and/or ones that undergo parthenogenesis like flatworms, shrimp, salamanders, ...
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Re: Genetics Homeworkkk!!! PLEASE HELP Glowing Green Blood Degree 3 is a rare human disorder caused by recessive allele - ggb3. the normal allele is GGB3 dominant. the gene for this disease is located on the human chromosome #1p, a large metacentric chromosome. The sex chromosomes ...
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