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Ames: a bioassay for detecting mutagenic and possibly carcinogenic compounds, developed by Bruce N. Ames in 1974.Reverse mutants to histidine independence are scored by growing Salmonella typhimurium on plates deficient in histidine in the presence of the chemical (test) and in its absence (control)
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Ames: a test for mutagenicity based on revertancy of certain salmonella bacteries.The test may in some cases include liver enzymes(liver homogenate)
Category: Medicine

frameshift: a type of mutation which causes out-of-phase transcription of the base sequence; such mutations arise from the addition or deletion of nucleotide (s) in numbers other than 3 or multiples of 3
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james: in a decision theoretic sense,the ordinary or natural mean vector has been shown to be inadmissible when the sample space has three or more dimensions(K).James and Stein(1961)showed that when K lesser 2 the ordinary mean vector is admissible.Based on the concept of 'shrinking towards the origin',they also gave an adjusted estimator for K greater than 3
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jamestown: capital of Saint Helena
Category: The cosmos

Surinamese: inhabitant of Suriname
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vietnamese: inhabitant of Vietnam
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