What is "heterochronic"

Usage examples of "heterochronic".

Thirty, that is, if you want to include bacterial protein and heterochronic eggs.

So they had spent a century or two manufacturing a set of artificial heterochronic genes that made possible a self-replicating egg.

Bram had a sequence containing two of the heterochronic genes in his sights.

The stretch of material from the heterochronic egg was spliced to the proper segment of embryonic stem tissue DNA from a space poplar.

A clue to what he wanted might be found in the archives, going back to the design of the original synthetic genes for the heterochronic egg.

Bram started to explain his part in the new project to provide the space poplar with heterochronic genes that might lead to a new, self-replicating organism at the embryonic stage.

Seeing the stubborn look on her face, he poured out the tale of the elusive historical data on the heterochronic gene project.

He summarized his problems in retracing the origins of the heterochronic genes, told of his encounter with the warning bells in the file from the codicil and the elusive footage of the voracious underwater monster.

They are early records of some of the beginning investigations of my touch group into the precursor heterochronic mechanismsfrom before those lines of research were abandoned.