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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dna
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Plasmid: circular DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the chromosome in microorganisms.
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He had been reading microbiology texts and became intrigued by DNA and how it replicated itself.
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During the S phase, the DNA replicates once, and only once.
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But if licensing factors are present in the cytoplasm, why doesn't DNA replicate all the time?
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But also, some time around the middle of interphase, the DNA replicates itself.
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The ability of DNA to replicate itself is a consequence of its unique structure.
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The DNA must replicate completely, once and only once.
finding
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I begin here, therefore, with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings .
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Quantitative studies of many countries help in building general theories of politics since they allow other scholars to replicate their findings .
■ VERB
try
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So many of us on Earth desperately try to replicate the feelings without knowing the source.
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The study tried to replicate real-life situations.
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Soon it will be like trying to replicate the Yellow Pages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Other scientists were unable to replicate the experiment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new study is replicating and extending the earlier work with a larger group of white-collar workers.
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Analogical theories of the photograph have been abandoned; we no longer believe that the photograph directly replicates circumstances.
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Of course, there is no way that the United States could replicate the forced draft economy of those war years.
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Systems theory suggests that a closed loop of activity, left undisturbed, will replicate itself over and over.
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That discussion can not be replicated here.
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This has not been the usual clinical experience, and these results have not been replicated.