Sentences with phrase «dormant form»

"Dormant form" refers to a state of rest or inactivity in which something is temporarily inactive or not actively growing or functioning. Full definition
The «space station» is a primitive diatom of the species Stephanodiscus, and the «shuttle craft» are scales from algal cysts, dormant forms of algae.
Instead, the changed CPEB became a fast - replicating, active version of its normally dormant form.
If I take the poetry analogy further, and compare these paintings to O'Hara's lunch poems and Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets, which singlehandedly revitalized a largely dormant form, I get the sense that Greenbaum is determined to extricate the intimately scaled painting from the state of familiarity that had settled over it, and make it new, as her predecessors did, by showing no sign of settling into a style or mode of production.
In experiments with mice, researchers found that the gene editing technology CRISPR works for active and dormant forms of HIV.
The outer portion of each ovary is filled with the earliest, dormant form of these egg - carrying follicles, called primordial follicles.
It is well worth remembering that 30 % of the world's population is infected by a dormant form of the TB bacillus.
As I mentioned, this virus persists in cats throughout their lifetime - but usually in a dormant form similar to shingles in humans.
The device is used with equal effect in the overturned seated figure of Periodico and for Waiting Room's rigid figure propped on a chair, and with wry nuance in the dormant form in Il Ballo whose knees jut out beneath a table.
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