encodes
- present tense form of encode (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
Watson was 25 when he and English biophysicist Francis Crick figured out the double-helix structure of DNA that encodes the essential information for life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
At the outset, their system encodes the parameters of a deep neural network into light.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
This additional layer of complexity—that DNA encodes a protein that allows DNA to replicate—is important because it provides a critical node for regulation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
