regulator gene

[ rĕg′yə-lā′tər ]

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A gene that causes the production of a protein that represses the activity of another gene in an operon.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

It got it all out there… Gene Hackman and Douglas… Melvyn Douglas is amazing.
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You see, as far as passing the baton down, Michael used to look at Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and James Brown.
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He insisted on taking back the watch, which ever after he used as a regulator.
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If it does, maybe we can get the cap and the regulator on the top.
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Mass' Gene has gone to his company; we are left alone here to meet them.
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The regulator stood in the open door, looking out upon the great sheets of water that were falling from the clouds.
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"With the regulator armed and equipped, the enemy will flee without taking order as to its line of march," thought the old man.
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