bivalent
Americanadjective
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Chemistry.
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having a valence of two.
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having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
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Genetics. pertaining to associations of two homologous chromosomes.
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adjective
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chem another word for divalent
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(of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
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Among those who had received the recently released bivalent booster vaccine, it was zero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Some are being randomized to get either a Moderna bivalent booster, which became available last fall, or the original Novavax vaccine.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 6, 2023
The paper, "Understanding low bivalent COVID-19 booster uptake among US adults," was published in the journal Vaccine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023
Its genetic drift is significantly different from BA.4 and BA.5, the variants last year's bivalent boosters were targeted against.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2023
Again, one finds a few cases like figure 176, where the spireme is segmented into bivalent chromosomes, each component showing a longitudinal split.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Nettie Maria Stevens
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