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Herewith is an account and plausible explanation of a few howlers committed by competent, experienced writers in books and articles I have read in recent months.
Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.
We define an annotation as the biological evaluation and explanation of a specific region on a nucleic acid sequence that includes, but is not limited to, gene transcripts.
10 See the appendix for a further explanation about electronic signatures and GAO's review of such applications.
This contention is further supported by published data showing that the npr1-2 allele failed to interact with putative target TGA transcription factor genes in a two-hybrid assay [ 17 ] or in an in vivo , reporter gene-based assay [ 18 ] . The treatment of npr1-2 seedlings with exogenous SA failed to induce increases in PR-1 gene expression under some experimental conditions [ 19 ] albeit not under all conditions [ 15 ] . The potential alternative explanation that results presented herein were caused by residual gene product function in the mutant lines used is thus not correct.