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nick

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A nick is a discontinuity in a double stranded DNA molecule where there is no phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides of one strand typically through damage or enzyme action. Nicks allow for the much-needed release of torsion in the strand during ...

Usage examples of nick.

Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.

From the corner of my sight I watched Nick leave the bathroom, looking like the ailing vampire who was sitting beside me, trying to attract anyone in an apron.

Liysa told Nick about her affair with Tim Sands and explained to him about her attack of amnesia that ended it.

Eyes show strabismus and nystagmus, also arteriovenous nicking and silver-wiring.

Nick proposes to leave a substantial sum to Aurora, a portion of which she will hold in trust for Miss Kendrick.

Chekhov is the autobiographical foundation of the ten Nick Adams stories, which treat the bruising passage from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.

Neither looked in very good nick, but they were talking avidly, peering toward the door.

Force to unclip the grenade pack Nick had taken off the mercenaries in Pelek Baw, then he snatched the captured over-under out of its scabbard on the grassers harness.

A dark-eyed man in his middle years, with an old scar above his eyes and another nicking his chin, his name was Caban, and he had nothing but contempt for anyone this side of the Aryth Ocean.

He understood then that Nillaine had drawn a hidden knife and tried to kill him, and that Chai had slapped it away in the bare nick of time.

Ruby almost choked when the heavyset cook bent over, revealing numerous nicks on her hairless legs.

Dame Agnes, accompanied by a maidservant, was walking in the gardens at Deene Park when Susanna and Nick arrived at mid-afternoon the following day.

The next morning Nick and Susanna left Deene Park with the excuse that Susanna must return to Candlethorpe to assure her goddaughter that she had not abandoned her.

He yawned most of the journey to Donnybrook where he nicked a red light at fifty-five, slowed a little for the bend and sped up again along Morehampton Road.

A small nick in the axillary vessel, a quick ligation of the ductus itself with a number-8 silk ligature.