Locus in a sentence as a noun

The funny thing is, growing up in silicon valley, I always understood it to be a locus of green/clean movements.

I don't think that we have a mechanistic explanation yet for the risk conferred by variants in the 9p21 locus, for example.

That defines an imaginary sphere in space, which intersects with the earth's surface to form a circular locus of where the plane could have been at the time.

He build a company from the public library, while living out of a homeless shelter and eating in soup kitchens?> Bring the locus of control inside.

There's something to be said for taking control of someone's locus of attention while you're talking, which you simply can't do when you have to talk in discrete, comment-sized chunks.

A mode is defined as any situation not at the user's locus of attention that would cause a gesture to perform an action different from another mode.

The fruitless gene locus also controls the expression of hundreds of other genes,[6] any subset of which may actually regulate behavior.

A recent study found a single genetic locus in mice can entirely alter the manner in which they build tunnels!But these are all seemingly complex behaviors.

The repository itself is also watered down pretty severely because the actual project directory is just nested in there somewhere with no formal locus.

As an example, the fly lines developed by Gerry Rubin et al, which can be manipulated to express any reporter gene in any genetically defined brain locus.

It over-selects for innocent bystanders and petty criminals, and filters out the savvier criminals who are actually the locus of the problem ostensibly being combated.

The entire locus of possibilities is described by unconscienable distances of freeway, mediated by the cursed automobile.

They also tend to give one self-confidence and internalize one's locus of control, whereas again hierarchies can only exist when people lack self-confidence and have relatively external locii of control.

We used an exceptional, species-wide pedigree to consider both recessive and dominant models of inheritance over all plausible founder genotype combinations at a biallelic and possibly sex-linked locus.

Locus definitions

noun

the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

See also: venue locale

noun

the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome

noun

the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle"