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  1. reification
    treatment of something abstract as a material thing
  2. euphemize
    refer to something with an indirect expression
  3. thesaurus
    a book containing a classified list of synonyms
  4. bumble
    walk unsteadily
  5. beadle
    a minor parish official who serves smaller church functions
  6. diploid
    an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell
  7. intron
    sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein
  8. eukaryotic
    having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei
  9. centromere
    a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape
  10. phenotypic
    of or relating to or constituting a phenotype
  11. ribose
    a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid
  12. allelic
    of or relating to alleles
  13. genotypic
    of or relating to or constituting a genotype
  14. allele
    any of the forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus
  15. pyrimidine
    a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor
  16. prokaryote
    a unicellular organism lacking a membrane-bound nucleus
  17. phenotype
    observable characteristics produced by genes and environment
  18. globin
    a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells
  19. codon
    a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid
  20. copyedit
    edit and correct (written or printed material)
  21. unharmonious
    not in harmony
  22. prepositional
    of or relating to or formed with a preposition
  23. syntactical
    of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
  24. abbreviate
    shorten
  25. crossword
    a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle
  26. wordplay
    a humorous play on words
  27. freelancer
    a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  28. freelance
    a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  29. ampersand
    a punctuation mark (&) that represents the conjunction "and"
  30. amp
    the basic unit of electric current
Created on Fri Mar 11 16:47:02 EST 2011 (updated Tue Apr 12 17:51:22 EDT 2011)

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