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Home Dictionary Name: replicationRepliant, or Replicant
Repliant, or Replicant, a litigant who replies, or files or delivers a replication....
replication
replication [Anglo-French, from Middle French, from Late Latin replicatio, from Latin, action of folding back, from replicare to fold back] : reply ...
Replication
Replication. This was before the Judicature Acts the term for a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's plea, and still so used in the Mayor's Court, London. See now REPLY....
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa (of his own wrong, without any such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a particular stage of the pleadings, was of frequent occurrence. It always tendered issue; but, on the other hand, differed (like many of the general issues) from the common form of a traverse, by denying in general and summary terms, and not in the words of the allegation traversed.This species of traverse occurred in the replication in actions of trespass, trespass on the case (including a species of assumpsit), and in the plea in bar in replevin, but was not used in any other stages of the pleadings, See Steph. On Plead.All the advantages of this replication were obtained in every case by joining issue, as provided by the C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 79, now replaced by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX.,...
rejoinder
rejoinder [Anglo-French, from rejoindre rejoinder to make rejoinder, literally, to join again, meet, from Old French, from re- again + joindre to join] : an answer to a reply ;specif : the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply or replication under common-law pleading ...
DNA polymerase
an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates Cells contain several types of DNA polymerase some of which are required for replication of DNA and are indispensable for multipliation and division of cells...
ligase
An enzyme which catalyzes creation of a covalent bond between two substrates resulting in a larger product which is a combination of the two starting materials especially DNA ligase an enzyme which creates a phosphate bond between 5prime and 3prime ends of a DNA chain resulting in a longer chain of DNA DNA ligase is important in normal biosynthesis of DNA in the replication cycle of cells...
Plasmid
A piece of DNA usually circular functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome but transferred like the chromosome to subsequent generations of daughter cells In bacteria plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells to alter the genetic makeup of the cell The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used in the case of genetically altered plant cells the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties as for example increased resistance to disease...
Replicant
One who replies...
Replicate
To reply...
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