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The revisions of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) aimed at reducing haze may require electric utility sources to adopt additional control measures.
These results underscore the similarity between trans-silencing and paramutation, because in both cases epialleles are often silenced incompletely and may also adopt novel regulatory patterns [ 4 10 ] , for example light inducibility [ 33 ] . Perhaps, silencing at the dimeric E82 locus involves a hierarchical relationship between its two intact T-DNAs.
I understand that the "natives," the year-round residents, do not want to adopt the visitors into their families--and may even resent them.
Specific interactions by peptide sidechain atoms inside the groove may force its backbone to adopt a suitable conformation for maximal interactions with the receptor atoms.
It is possible, for example, that the genetic program of these cells gradually changes with time such that they can more easily adopt the cardiac phenotype.