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cleave | American Dictionary

cleave
verb[ I/T ]
us/kliv/past tense and past participlecleaved, cleft or clove | past participlecleaved, cleft or cloven | present participlecleaving
to cut or break into two or more parts:
[ I ]The volcano cleaved nearly in half after its last eruption.

Examples of cleave

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Thus, it appears that the mature protein is not cleaved into single domains in vivo, but is maintained in the 2domain form.
The final effector molecule of the fibrinolytic system is plasmin, which cleaves fibrin into soluble degradation products.
Their expression has been detected in the human fetal ovary (cleaved caspase-3) between 14-19 weeks, a time leading to primordial follicle formation.
The ticks proved very susceptible to the effects of the vapours of ammonia and clove oil respectively.
These motif groups generally cleaved along political boundaries at the confederation level.
Although most embryos cleave unequally (normal), a small percentage (5%) cleave equally.
In the following we will describe enzymes which produce an adenylated intermediate during their reaction or directly cleave the - and -anhydride bond.
Reform in the 1870s did not proceed in an educational milieu cleaved along lines of new and old or modern and traditional.
Proteases are chosen that cleave at specific sites in the protein sequence.
Others are cleaved along the plane of the leaf laminae.
In the presence of glucose, however, male embryos cleaved earlier than female ones.
Fragmentation was observed in embryos at the 2- to 32-cell stage and these embryos were not cleaved further.
Nor did the incidences of eggs cleaving (86.7-97.7%) and developing to the blastocyst stage (0-3.5%) differ depending on when, after injection, stimulation began.
In this context, decreased developmental potential in cleaving nucleotransferred embryos is consistent with cell loss, and very likely due to programmed cell death.
Of 30 cleaved green embryos obtained on day 7, most of them stopped developing before the morula stage, and only 7 green blastocysts were formed.
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