Meaning of revertent | Babel Free

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

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Examples

“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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