[lojban] Re: guess the tanru

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:31, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > Here's a tanru for a phrase I've seen many times. Can you guess what it
> > means? {terzbacau spisa nilcla kamsortai}
>
> "Materialless piece length polymorphism".
>
> Have no idea what it *means*, though.

Restriction fragment length polymorphism, or "riflip" for short. Pieces are 
formed by copying DNA in an environment which is missing one of the four 
terzbasu. This produces copies of long stretches of intergene DNA that are 
missing that base, such as CATCATCATCAT.

phma
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