Example sentences for: reductive

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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.

  • Again, please don't take this in the spirit of reductive p.c.

  • The '50s begot 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.

  • In terms of the evolutionary scenario, the Anabaena/Nostoc lineage may reflect the ancestral state, and modern unicellular cyanobacteria may be derived genomes that are smaller and more streamlined (reductive evolution).

  • The starter module then hands the resulting ‘diketide’ on to the second module (first reducing it, if appropriate, using reductive enzymes ‘borrowed’ from fatty acid biosynthesis) for typical extension by successive condensation with malonyl-CoA units to complete the chain.


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