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Tate's devotion eventually convinced her that human love is more than the bizarre mating competitions of the marsh creatures, but life also taught her that ancient genes for survival still persist in some undesirable forms among the twists and turns of man's genetic code.
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genetic code = the biological blueprint that consists of DNA and determines biological characteristics such as hair color and height
- Hoods are automated gene sequencers-machines that work out the genetic code by themselves.† (source)
- If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her.† (source)
- They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form.† (source)
- I have chiseled away at my father's genetic code since I realized I was better equipped to roll to school than walk, but the bare-bones me is still more Raymond Burr than Arnold Schwarzenegger.† (source)
- We follow her past the gene therapy room where I saw a map of my genetic code, farther into the heart of the compound than I have been yet.† (source)
- The genetic code inside Ebola is a single strand of RNA.† (source)
- They're like the genetic code of the universe.† (source)
- If something hadn't gone wrong with her genetic code, Lisbeth would have been as radiantly beautiful as her sister.† (source)
- And George and I are both GPs, so any entanglement that can't produce a stronger genetic code ….† (source)
- A tiny change in its genetic code, and it might turn into a cough and take out the human race.† (source)
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- They surround a single strand of RNA, which is the virus's genetic code.† (source)
- Suddenly there was both enthusiasm and money for biology, and a torrent of discoveries poured forth: tranquilizers, steroid hormones, immunochemistry, the genetic code.† (source)
- But don't for a second think that I actually believe she's not interested in you for more than your genetic code."† (source)
- The fringe is where my mother retreated after witnessing a murder—it is where the Bureau found her and rescued her because they suspected her genetic code was sound.† (source)
- A tiny difference in the virus's genetic code, probably resulting in a small structural change in the shape of one of the seven mysterious proteins in the virus particle, had apparently changed its effects tremendously in humans, rendering it mild or harmless even though it had destroyed the monkeys.† (source)
- I don't know what I had in mind when Nita talked about her plan, but it wasn't this—this feels so small, so passive as an act of retaliation against the people responsible for the attack simulation, the people who told me that there was something wrong with me at my very core, in my genetic code.† (source)
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