Meaning of revertent | Babel Free

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Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.

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“As can be seen from the data for the control⟳ cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.”

“The revertent virus may have⟳ escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.”

“Histochemical staining using antibodies to N, C and rod domain epitopes of dystrophin usually show⟳ complete⟳ absence of the protein, except for occasional revertent fibres (there are fibres which label⟳ normally with antibodies to dystrophin; their origin is not understood; Fig. 20.2F).”

“The greater the stress⟳, the greater the tendency to revert to occult practices and an earlier stage⟳ of intellectual development, and these revertent ideologies thereby compete⟳ for acceptance.”

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