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of pertaining to or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order frame to be correctly translated into protein in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene...
Prevaricate
To shift or turn from one side to the other from the direct course or from truth to speak with equivocation to shuffle to quibble as he prevaricates in his statement...
Prog
To wander about and beg to seek food or other supplies by low arts to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks...
Put off
A shift for evasion or delay an evasion an excuse...
Quibble
A shift or turn from the point in question a trifling or evasive distinction an evasion a cavil...
Quirk
A sudden turn a starting from the point or line hence an artful evasion or subterfuge a shift a quibble as the quirks of a pettifogger...
Shift
To divide to distribute to apportion...
Contingent remainder
Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders.The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1. S. 4, whoever, provides that they can take effect as equitable interests, and any instrument creating a contingent remainder has become a settlement under s. 1 (ii) of the (English) S.L. Act, 1925. See SETTLED LAND.In Smith d. Dormer v. Parkhurst, (1740) 18 Vin. Abr. 413; 6 Bro. Cas. Par. 351, the Court held that, in every case where an estate is given to A. for life, the grantor has an interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate, if it should determine by any act of the tenant amounting to a forfeiture; that this right is inherent in the grantor, from the nature of the estate itself, and may be conveyed to trustees; and that, when it is conv...
Secondary use
Secondary use, a use limited to take effect in derogation of a preceding estate; otherwise called a shifting use, as a conveyance to the use of A. and his heirs, with a proviso that when B. returns from India, then to the use of C. and his heirs, Steph. Com. Vol. II., 'Present and Future Interests.'...
Removal
Removal, 'removal' cannot be the equivalent of loss of service but the loss of 'post', 'station' or 'office', R.P. Kapur v. S. Pratap Singh Kairon, AIR 1964 SC 295: (1964) 4 SCR 224.(ii) The word 'removal' contemplates shifting of a thing from one place to another. It contemplated physical movement of goods from one place to another, J.K. Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 191: (1987) Supp SCC 350: (1988) 1 SCR 700.The transfer or moving of a person or thing from one location, position or residence to another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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