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Finally, all the Ames test strains have defective polysaccharide outer coats, to make them more permeable to the test chemicals.
Mutants that grew on these plates were judged to be defective in glucose metabolism and were not studied further.
The horse escaped from its stable during the night into the field and thence onto the railway line via a defective fence.
In accordance with the terms of this limited warranty, the company, at its expense shall repair or replace the product which is proven defective.
Since unmodified Ebola enters through, and attacks, the lungs, defective lung cells could benefit most from therapy based on this discovery.
But it has been proved that actually defective vehicles have contributed to accidents on Zambian roads.
In short, the vertebrate eye is a masterpiece not of design, but of jury-rigged compensations for a fundamentally defective architecture.
Once the grafts had matured they were used to reconstruct defective windpipes in seven foetal lambs.
If there is a bad set of specifications and a bad set of materials no good workman can fix the problem, because it is intrinsically defective.
Vehicles with worn or defective shock absorbers are less stable and more liable to go out of control.
The second major category of error is that of defective identification of patient, tissue, or laterality.
This defective recovery of DNA replication suggests an inability to coordinate lesion bypass or to initiate new replicons.
This could involve the expression in a yeast mutant, which is defective for an analogous transport system.
Once the buyer has shown goods to be defective, strict liability arises for their consequences.
A further 16 charges, relating to driving with a defective speed limiter, were found proven.
It is also thought by some authorities that bottle-fed babies are more likely to develop defective appestats than those that are breast-fed.
All the lions and lionesses here are of a hybrid stock and thus are prone to producing defective offspring, it is pointed out.
Will this bizarre heist sizzle like a bottle rocket or fizzle like a defective firecracker?
All three cars made it to a sideroad without further incident, and the defective driver came out to assess the damage.
The second exception to the general rule occurs when a party is at fault in employing wrong or defective procedures.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In many cases which have been described as primary atrophy the histological investigation of the stomach has been very defective.
And they that think it culpably defective in phrase, aptness, or elegancy of style.
Since then Dr. Decroly, who specialises on defective children in Belgium, has tried our methods, and verified our conclusions.
Asthenopia, which occurs in children in connection with hypermetropia, is nearly always accompanied by defective vision.
The student has already seen that Maori is defective in particles of illation, comparison, and copulation.
In proliferous flowers the pistil is often completely defective, its place being occupied by the adventitious bud or axis.
Approximately one-half of the incense cedar trees, as they stand in the woods, are defective.
If it is defective, the defect all comes from some want of strenuousness as you went along.
Should it not be considered a mark of defective cultivation to be insensitive to color?
I thin the fruit while on the trees by picking off the wormy and defective ones.
His telautograph worked on what is known as the step-by-step principle, and was defective in that its speed was very limited.
This convolution is comparatively defective in animals generally, but more developed in birds of superior vocal powers.
An overflow is provided, discharging into the open air to allow the water to escape should the ball valve become defective.
Jimmy has so long lived away from Brownsville that his memory is defective.
The corner of the 'W' instead of being clear and distinct, is blunt and defective.
The first type of family is often termed aristogenic and the second or defective type, cacogenic.
It is obvious that a defective vacuum may or may not prevent an engine from starting, according to the degree of defectiveness.
In cases of anasarca, the skin, kidneys, and bowels are very defective in their operation.
But it is a most awkward, operose, and defective piece of machinery, quite unworthy of being presented to my readers.
In times of overstress and strain, the defective organ or organs will manifest their weakness.
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