upper-case letters
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Upper-case letters indicate novel exon 5′ and lower-case letters indicate intron 5.
From Nature
LNA bases are upper-case letters and DNA bases are lower –case letters.
From Nature
Recipients will get new Medicare IDs consisting of 11 numbers and upper-case letters, so they have a personally unique code tied to their benefits.
From Washington Times
Go to any session from pre-K to grade 2 and the teacher starts the lesson the same way: drawing lines on the board to guide the sizes of lower- and upper-case letters - though the terms vary for younger children.
From Washington Times
Although the majority of its products will switch over to mixed-case characters, forecasters will still have the option to use upper-case letters in certain reports to emphasize threatening and dangerous weather situations.
From Reuters
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