reporter gene

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noun

a gene with an easily recognizable phenotype, used in analysing the regulation of gene structures

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Words nearby reporter gene

report card, reported clause, reportedly, reported speech, reporter, reporter gene, reportorial, report stage, reposal, repose, reposeful

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How to use reporter gene in a sentence

A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.
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It got it all out there… Gene Hackman and Douglas… Melvyn Douglas is amazing.
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When a reporter asked him a question, it would often elicit a series of Jesuitical responses.
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But, really, nobody must know that I am a mere society reporter on the Centerport Courier.
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This matter of her mother being a society reporter, Jess feared, would cost them more in the end than it was worth to them.
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There was no doubt in my mind but that the newspaper article stemmed from Mr. Hamblen's visit with a newspaper reporter.
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A lady, carrying a small workbasket in her hand, bade the reporter good-evening as she passed out.
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I was a regular attendant in the capacity of reporter for the newspaper upon which I was employed.
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