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Cancer - (je-nuh-toh-YUR-uh-ner-ee SIS-tem) The parts of the body that play a role in reproduction, getting rid of waste products in the form of urine, or both.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ANS, autonomic nervous system, involuntary, involuntary nervous system, limbic system, parasympathetic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, viscera, visceral
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Telecommunications - The synchronization of two television signals at the vertical, horizontal, and chroma phase levels such that the signals may be cut, mixed, or cross-faded without noticeable roll, jump, or chroma shift. Note: Modern usage accomplishes this with a frame synchronizer/time base corrector, but it may also be accomplished by a closed loop method or an open loop method, the latter using a pair of rubidium clocks and a video delay line to maintain chroma lock.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: biased, coordinated time scale, leap second, lip synchronization, loran station, synchronism, synchronous
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Food Biotechnology - All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism; its size is generally given as its total number of base pairs.
USDA CSREES - Cite This Source - This Definition - 1. The entire complement of genetic material (genes plus non-coding sequences) present in each cell of an organism, virus or organelle. 2. The complete set of chromosomes (hence of genes) inherited as a unit from one parent.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - The genetic complement contained in the chromosomes of a given organism, usually the haploid chromosome state.
Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: chromonema, chromosomal integration site, chromosome banding, chromosome theory of inheritance, Chromosomes, compound chromosome, Cytogenetics, endomitosis, independent assortment, karyogram, lampbrush chromosome, X-linked
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Human Genome - All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism; its size is generally given as its total number of base pairs.
Human Genome Project - Cite This Source - This Definition - All the DNA contained in an organism or a cell, which includes both the chromosomes within the nucleus and the DNA in mitochondria. See also cell, chromosome, nucleus
National Human Genome Research Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Autosome, Chromosome, human artificial chromosome (HAC), Micronuclei, Nucleus, sex chromosome, sex-linked, Y-chromosome
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Cancer - (jeh-NOH-mik PROH-file) Information about all the genes in an organism, including variations, gene expression, and the way those genes interact with each other and with the environment. A genomic profile may be used to discover why some people get certain diseases while other people do not, or why people respond differently to the same drug.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: adenovirus, DNA gene-expression microarray, gene deletion, Gene expression, genetic profile, syngeneic, Tumor suppressor gene
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Food Biotechnology - is the mapping and sequencing of all the genetic material in the DNA of a particular organism as well as the use of information derived from genome sequence data to further elucidate what genes do, how they are controlled, and how they work together. See the Microbe Project for more information.
USDA CSREES - Cite This Source - This Definition - The research strategy that uses molecular characterization and cloning of whole genomes to understand the structure, function and evolution of genes and to answer fundamental biological questions. See: bio-informatics, functional genomics and proteomics.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: bio-informatics, functional genomics, GC island, insert, Intergenic regions, multigene family, repetitive DNA, shotgun genome sequencing
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Human Genome - See: DNA
Human Genome Project - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Base sequence, Base sequence analysis, Complementary sequence, DNA sequence, DNA sequencing, Full gene sequence, High-throughput sequencing, Regulatory region or sequence, Sanger sequencing, sequence, Sequence assembly, Sequencing technology, Shotgun method, shotgun sequencing, Structural genomics
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Food Biotechnology - (pl.: genera) A group of closely related species, whose perceived relationship is typically based on physical resemblance, now often supplemented with data.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - A category including closely related species. Interbreeding between organisms within the same category can occur.
Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: allogenic, genera, intergeneric cross, interspecific cross, intrageneric, intrageneric cross, intraspecific, intraspecific cross, triticale
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Storage - A geo-dispersed, or multi-site, cluster is a cluster configuration used to help ensure high system and application availability in the event of site disaster. In this configuration, servers are separated geographically and the physical storage (quorum disk) is synchronously replicated between sites.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: asymmetrical cluster, campus cluster, cluster, Cluster Interconnect, extended distance cluster, heartbeat network, local cluster, Metrocluster, metropolitan cluster, MPOF (Multiple Points of Failure), SPOF (Single Point of Failure)
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Enterprise Search - The ability to sort, filter and/or rank documents based on their geographical distance from a given source position, typically the position of the end-user.
FAST - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Dynamic rank, dynamic ranking, lexical affinity, popular ranking, Quality, Rank profile, Ranking, Ranking models, Relevance or Relevance ranking, static ranking, text-based scoring
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Water - Geological study of the character, source, and mode of ground water.
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Water - The science that deals with the physical history of the earth, the rocks of which it is comprised, and the physical changes which the earth has undergone or is undergoing.
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Weather - In solar-terrestrial terms, the components of the geomagnetic field at the surface of the earth. In SESC use, the northward and eastward components are often called the H and D components, where the D component is expressed in gammas and is derived from D (the declination angle) using the small angle approximation.
NOAA National Weather Service - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Conjugate Points, Crochet, Geomagnetic Field, Geomagnetic Storm, Gradual Commencement, H-component of the Geomagnetic Field, Magnetic Bay, Magnetosphere, NWD, Sudden Commencement (SC), Sudden Impulse (SI+ or SI-)