splicing

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Sure, I'll just hop into my time machine and teach the scientists from the 70s all about gene splicing...

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a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice"

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noun

a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice"

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noun

a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice"

Example sentences

Sure, I'll just hop into my time machine and teach the scientists from the 70s all about gene splicing...

The $ is only for splicing expressions into quoted code.

You can't mine it or collect it, so you would have to create it by splicing water, a process which consumes a lot of energy.

It doesn't take gene splicing to create a new variety you just need to use selective breeding which anyone can do and people have been doing for 1000s of years [1].

Actually I'm planning on splicing it into MakeGreen, so instead of getting a green bar when my tests pass I get Nyan Cat flying across my window.

Naturally, the NSA doesn't want repair crews finding their tap-in points!So how do you turn a piece of fiber into a beam-splitter without cutting and splicing?

There is a whole layer of interaction between epigenetics, differential RNA splicing, and DNA-DNA feedback that is just mind-boggling.

I think in the coming years, we will find that other regulatory elements also shape this code, including sequences that control splicing, small RNAs, mRNA degradation and transport, et ceteraAnyways, it's a pretty fun time in biology.