Ziad Shihab

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The Ns of Ukrainian names

Male names: Nazariy comes from Latin name Nazarius (from Nazareth). Nikandr is a rare form of Greek name Nikandros (victory of a man). Nychypir is a folk form of Greek name Nikephoros (carrying victory). Female names: Nadiya means "hope." Nataliya is the Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Natalie (Christmas). One of the nicknames is Natalka. Neonila is the Ukrainian form of the rare Russian name Neonilla, which probably derives from Greek root neos (new).

GT-AG rule (thing) by BioTech - Everything2.com

GT-AG rule (thing) See all of GT-AG rule, no other writeups in this node. by BioTech (11.8 y) CC Rep: 5 ( +7 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (-) Fri Aug 09 2002 at 12:03:13 This is the observation that all introns in DNA begin with the nucleotides of "GT" (guanine, thymine) and end with the nucleotides "AG" (adenine, guanine). When the DNA is transcribed into RNA, the introns are removed from the RNA by a mechanism which recognizes these beginning and ending nucleotides - in the RNA they wo...