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    gene


    1. This is a growing practice wherein, for example, a bacterium gene is injected into tomatoes, turning them into 24-hour-a-day anti-pest factories


    2. The bar codes were an irrelevance, made obsolete by gene marking and biometrics, but the simple fact of their visibility made them an essential part of the control


    3. of gene and splice, of collected history


    4. At Medical/Science Hold she astounded Lord Nardo with her knowledge of DNA and gene splicing applications


    5. What if she's inherited the self destruct gene? I couldn't bear it, not again


    6. The three that were cross contaminated for the one gene that had been investigated, who knows how many more


    7. I discovered that the FoxO gene, present in vast quantities in the common Hydra, was what we now call, the longevity gene


    8. However, people with a surplus of this gene sometimes lived longer but, more often than not it caused their cells to reproduce at a rate that was far too rapid, causing tumors and, ultimately, cancer


    9. I developed a serum that helps to control the FoxO gene


    10. ‘But, won’t that give me cancer? You said that the FoxO gene grows out of control and creates tumors and cancer and crap

    11. The only explanation that I can come up with, is that you are a natural carrier of large numbers of the FoxO gene and that, somehow, the Gamma radiation from the pulse has mutated your FoxO genes in some fashion


    12. You see, sergeant, it’s not simply that your system is flooded with the FoxO gene, the gene itself is mutating


    13. It knows this, so, by using the FoxO gene, it will do its best to prevent you actually dying


    14. It actually carried some gene sequences from the Y chromosome


    15. power gene worked as a 100% foolproof


    16. Such distinctions, until quite recently, where common among certain cultures (or groups) who, for centuries, acquired cultural and intellectual sustenance from homogenous gene pools


    17. The voice was that of Truman’s enemy, Gene Frazer


    18. Resting his arms on the railing, he leaned out into the vacant darkness while within, Beth seethed: Truman had lied! He’d said that he hardly knew Gene Frazer


    19. “I just wanted to see to it that Gene gets home all right


    20. Or, was she remembering what Gene Frazer said about her fights with her son? She wasn’t sure but, in a confusing whirl of knife blades, ceiling beams, fat cheeks waggling with laughter, squinty-eyed grimaces while his cock befouled her, taut shoulder muscles, angry shrieking, a dagger penetrating the soft flesh below her chin as she contorted her neck to escape it, blood trickling along her neck, the color red, a wash of green, a snickering cockroach crawling over her, red again, the ceiling, black, all black, it ended

    21. For one, he had lied to her, insisting that he hardly knew Gene Frazer, but what was it Gene said? ‘We’re old war buddies,’ he’d bragged


    22. “What about Gene Frazer?” She abused the name contemptuously


    23. He frowned, looking towards her, perhaps because she hadn’t sat near him, or did it have to do with Gene Frazer?


    24. I hadn’t seen that nightmare with feet for years, then, out of the blue, he waltzed in here one day calling himself Gene Frazer


    25. I told Gene Frazer or John Sinclair, whatever his name was, to re-lose himself and not come back


    26. I was at that dinner I told you about in Puriscal, the one where I met Gene Frazer


    27. “Don’t fret, my friend,” Gene responded, watching as Brian unwrapped the cash and piled it into stacks of hundreds, “everything will work out


    28. “My name is Gene Frazer and I’m the guy you came to see,” he said speaking from the side of his mouth


    29. Oh, hello, Gene,” she said, glancing in his direction


    30. Suddenly, an idea occurred to her that was both splendid and simple: she could easily give the police confirmable evidence implicating Brian as the contractor of George’s murder, in conspiracy with Gene Frazer

    31. ’ He told me to call Gene Frazer to meet him in the club because he was going to hire him to kill George


    32. I phoned Gene Frazer as asked, but he wasn’t in, so I paged him


    33. ” Their statements also concurred about Brian passing this money to the American cowboy with white hair whom the police suspected to be Gene Frazer


    34. Initially, Walston vehemently denied that he knew anyone by the name of Gene Frazer but, when confronted with the page and videotape, he changed his story


    35. Additionally, there was conflicting evidence regarding Gene Frazer: his maid and several others verified that he packed and left several days before the murder for what he said was a trip to the US, but he was not listed as a passenger on bus, plane or ship, nor did immigration record his departure


    36. He could only thank his lucky stars, or more likely, he assumed, Gene Frazer, at the fortunate turn of events – money well spent! Of course, he would assist Sylvia’s friend


    37. Also unnoticed was that Gene Frazer was tapping every source available in the US Embassy and the Costa Rican government, attempting to identify the origin of the information that led to his friend Brian’s arrest


    38. “And what is your relationship with Gene Frazer?”


    39. To continue: what is the relationship between Gene Frazer and Brian Walston?”


    40. Gene Frazer, yet you now claim to know who their friends are

    41. Gene Frazer, another man you ‘hardly know


    42. Now, once more: how do you know that Gene Frazer and Brian Walston are friends?”


    43. Gene was waiting for me in the hall afterwards and guided


    44. Later Gene and I had so many other things to chat about,


    45. Trying to be up-beat, I told Aunt Min about Gene; how


    46. “Well, Gene, while


    47. Gene swallowed his last bite of pie and came back with,


    48. While Gene climbed into the cart to have a look, I peered


    49. While Gene clambered out of the cart, I calculated the cost


    50. Gene thought for a minute














































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    Synonyms for "gene"

    cistron factor gene

    "gene" definitions

    (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity