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“Chutzpa is that quality enshrined in a man, who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
Similarly, Zdobnov et al . [ 23] show that D. melanogaster orphan genes tend to exhibit lower levels of conservation in pairwise comparison with A. gambiae [ 23].
This gene is found on the same contig as D1S490 (NT_004817) and is an orphan receptor within the steroid hormone receptor superfamily.
orphan" G-protein coupled receptors), because every sequence is most similar to something.
Harris' hits were (as TV movies say) "based on a true story"--like his grisly ballad of an orphan girl asking the telephone operator to be put through to her dead mother, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven."