Word: catalystic
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...right sequence and had not been damaged by chemical side effects. When enough strands had been produced to make complementary pairs, Khorana lined them alongside each other to form segments of the full, double-stranded molecule. Finally, with the help of a newly discovered enzyme, or chemical catalyst, called DNA ligase, he succeeded in putting together the last large pieces of the puzzle. The full 77-nucleotide synthetic yeast gene had been five years in the making...
...were not for the war. God knows we didn't want to go. We turned around, though, with PearlHarbor which in my mind was completely brought about by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who needed an excuse to declare war. This group today needs a catalyst. If a Chinese ICBM landed in California that would make people realize that Nixon's handling of Vietnam is not that...
...catalyst for the riot was an approved march on Augusta's city hall last Monday to protest the killing of 16-year-old Charles Oatman in the county jail. Oatman had been beaten to death in his cell two days before, and the authorities had charged two of his black cellmates with murder. But there was hardly a black in Augusta who did not hold the police responsible for allowing the killing to take place. Once the crowd of 300 reached the marble-faced county building in downtown Augusta, the demonstrators began to turn ugly. First they ripped...
...said that LSD "amplifies and emphasizes certain personality traits, but does not cause them." Because LSD acts as a catalyst, and because some individuals experience varied reactions to the drug, the setting in which the drug is taken becomes important to the individual reaction. Grof said that a laboratory environment tends to produce paranoiac reactions among patients treated with hallucinogenic drugs...
...searing heat of volcanic eruptions on the surface of the young planet? Researchers have found that amino acids can be produced in laboratory simulations of each of those conditions. Now a team of investigators at Cornell University has proposed that another natural phenomenon might have played a role. The catalyst of genesis, they say, could have been the shock waves of thunderclaps or even of meteors plunging into the atmosphere...