Word: mosaicism
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Chemical Mutation. Tsugita and Fra«n-kel-Conrat worked with TMU, a virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants. TMU's structure is extremely simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself...
...year-old "Table of Kindred and Affinity" in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer is still the basic framework of Britain's complex marriage and divorce laws. Adapted from John Calvin's zealous compilation of Mosaic laws and medieval mores, it stipulates who may not marry whom...
...Paris the President found the trip's most serious diplomatic challenge. Around a mosaic-inlaid table he conferred with France's Charles de Gaulle, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Britain's Harold Macmillan in a difficult Western summit meeting. To a ruffled Premier De Gaulle he explained that the U.S. is basically in sympathy with French attempts to end the struggle in Algeria. But in private session he argued adamantly against France's pullback of support from NATO'S integrated defense (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed to disagree until more staff work could...
...Mosaic Carpets. To contrast with nature's grandeur, the Owingses tried to make the interior snug and warm. The only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants...
...memorial to deceased chaplains and members of the U.S. armed forces. The 329-ft. bell tower cost $1,000,000, raised by the Knights of Columbus. Two statues of the Virgin by Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominate the north and south walls of the church. Above them rises a mosaic dome of blue, red and gold, topped by a gold-leafed steel cross...