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The '50s begat Happy Days ; the '60s, The Wonder Years ; the '70s, That '70s Show ; and the '80s, Freaks and Geeks . In 20 years, the 1990s will be distilled into a set of reductive clichés and processed into a TV sitcom.
The modules each contain an acyl transferase (to load the extender unit onto the enzyme), as well as a ketosynthase and an ACP domain, together with exactly those reductive activities needed to generate the required pattern of modification of the chain at each step of elongation.
Except for C. psittaci, we may be seeing different strains in varied states of reductive evolution with respect to what remnants of genes for tryptophan biosynthesis remain.
Now, at the end of the 1990s, with the evidence drawn mainly from old movies and old sitcoms, '50s fashion is similarly ripe for reductive contempt.
These late scenes are over the top, as mean and reductive as editorials in a tabloid, and they nearly extinguish the moral subtlety of what's gone before.