How To Use Chimera In A Sentence
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Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera.
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Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life.
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Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
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In the laboratory, scientists took the embryonic cells from each of these animals, fused them together, and gave birth to a new species on earth called a "geep," half sheep, half goat; the head of a goat, the body of a sheep; a chimera, a new composite creature.
Speech to the City Club on The BioTech Century
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While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
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Following an initial chimeric state (bi - or multi-partner chimeras), maturation of the allorecognition system of corals could potentially lead to the death of the entire entity or of just some of the genotypes within the genetically heterogeneous individual.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Religious unity remained as much a chimera as ever.
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Hunt:Nekhorvich specialized in recombining DNA molecules. In the myth, Bellerophon was a prince who killed the Chimera.
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What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science?
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They stained strongly positive for alkaline phosphatase, were karyotypically normal and, most importantly, made splendid chimeras.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
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Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines.
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A related view also occurs much later; Ashworth reports that Menghus Blanchellus Faventinus held that term negations such as ˜nonman™ are true of non-beings, and he concluded from this that ˜A nonman is a chimera™ is true (apparently assuming that ˜chimera™ is also true of nonbeings). [
The Traditional Square of Opposition
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In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera.
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If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and last infirmity of noble minds, full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man.
Paras. 25-49
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Archive 2006-01-01
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All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention.
Creative Control - Part 4
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Chimera said the scuffle was a result of a hard hit by Ovechkin earlier in the game.
Ovechkin hurt as Blue Jackets drop Capitals in overtime
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The undead monster had a plan, and part of that plan was destroying the Chimera Queen.
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Like the chimeras of myth, the geep exhibits morphological traits of multiple species, with wool on some parts of its body and hair on others.
Human/Non-Human Chimeras
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The chimera reaches into the bag at her feet, and rummages around, pulling out a small ampoule filled with yellow smoke.
Archive 2010-04-01
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You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues.
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Cloven Chimera Buyers
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It's a chimera which anyone can overcome with an absolute belief in themselves.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.
Archive 2008-08-01
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In fact, all we can do is confess our 'Kantian' ignorance at the limits of science as metaphysics and not be so determined to do all the foolish things ignorant people might wish to do, such as crossbreed man and chimpanzee, or produce chimeras of the type Dawkins so grinningly finds he would inflict on those less 'rational' than he.
Darwiniana
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The economic sovereignty which Mrs Thatcher claims to defend is a chimera.
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Jason Chimera argued the call fervently, but to no avail for the desperate Jackets, who had overcome a pair of two-goal deficits to get the game tied.
NHL.com Feature Stories
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The form of government which is usually termed mixt has always appeared to me to be a mere chimera.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
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We can see the Benedictines roaring with laughter, twisting in their seats, their faces changing color like the chimera's skin was supposed to do.
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Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one band, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras.
The Afghan Tragedy
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From horticultural subjects such as the apple, (3) pear, cranberries, (4) and grapes, it is obvious that periclinal chimeras will be of prime importance in analysis of results in treatment of nut trees.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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To our knowledge, no investigations of periclinal chimeras have been made with nuts, following treatment with colchicine.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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He showed that stem cells could be used to make organs in interspecies chimeras.
Steven Potter: 'Designer Genes': Stem Cells Used to Make Replacement Organs
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Log in to Reply jadechimera (UID#1821) on September 8th, 2009 at 4: 33 pm lack of possessive apostrophe is also fail …
Do you know they use your head to block little girls vaginas on the internet | My[confined]Space
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‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets.
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Were an organism an evolutionary chimera, then its various chronometers [phylogenetic markers] would yield different, conflicting phylogenies.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.
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Particularly for Fleischmann, the transition is an easy one because he played with Jason Chimera and Eric Fehr a handful of times last season as well.
Semyon Varlamov off first, likely to start against Bruins
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Perhaps it's the Unicorn's very ability to resist such temptation, that's kept our numbers down, but like the manticore and the chimera I have great reasons to suspect the propriety of some of my ancestors.
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As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals.
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But April was thinking of other things as she walked up to a large, bluish-gray, chimera-like bird with doggish ears and hawk wings.
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In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent.
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The key problem for both scholars is the illusion, a chimera, that the Bible has what could be realistically described as a middle, or even a central theme.
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Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
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A host of players - Mike Knuble, Brooks Laich, Matt Hendricks, Eric Fehr and Jason Chimera - have auditioned for the role of prime disturber in front of the crease.
Capitals still searching for answers on the power play
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Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
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The complicated geometrical relations between the disk and are solved by using chimera grid technique.
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The closest this sublime chimera ever came to being realized was during the days when his body lay on its bier.
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Unlike chimeras or hippogriffs, dragons were much stronger, fiercer, and generally harder to kill.
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Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera.
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The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.
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For if this myth of the harpies were a reality, what of the other legends -- the Hydra, the centaurs, the chimera, Medusa, Pan and the satyrs?
Wings in the Night
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Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes.
Actions and Reactions
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Superficially it appears to be a periclinal chimera with a chlorophyll-deficient mutation in the second layer of the meristem.
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Religious unity remained as much a chimera as ever.
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Subversion turns quickly to reabsorption into the main-stream; intellectual independence is a chimera.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh.
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Rationality in science is sometimes a chimera, and the border between magic and science is easily crossed; it depends on attitude, information available, and context.
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But calling this mouse a ‘chimera’ is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras.
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Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras.
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Where the narrative represents events that contravene these we have four flavours of quirk respectively (expanding on Suvin's coinage/exaptation of "novum" and following his naming strategy): sutura; chimera; erratum; novum.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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While it could plausibly be either a linked story collection or a novel, it is neither fish nor fowl, but, rather, a lovingly befinned and befeathered chimera of both.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed
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The gloom of religious abstraction and the wildness of their situation among trackless forests and savage tribes had disposed the colonists to superstitious fancies, and had filled their imaginations with the frightful chimeras of witchcraft and spectrology.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.
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'blasphemously' apply to the actual 'old chimera of a Pope. '
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
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Is the ideal of banishing hunger throughout the world just a chimera?
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He also called Australia a ‘chimera’, the word applied by classical authors to unclassifiable monsters.
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Moreover, academic freedom is an Enlightenment chimera and autonomy is a secular principle, not a Christian virtue.
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The gloom of religious abstraction, and the wildness of their situation, among trackless forests and savage tribes, had disposed the colonists to superstitious fancies, and had filled their imaginations with the frightful chimeras of witchcraft and spectrology.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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It had dragons and serpents and chimeras and gryphons and other fun creatures that I wish existed.
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After Chimera made it 2-0, Ovechkin skated up the left wing to the top of the circle, his hard shot eluding Leclaire.
USATODAY.com
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The focus of media coverage in the popular press is implicitly working towards this chimera.
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chimeras are nonexistent
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She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures.
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If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy?
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I've put a sheep/goat chimera at the bottom of the picture (not to be confused with a hybrid), but whatever you do, don't call it a "geep".
Cloven Chimera Buyers
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It was upon the advice of the Crown's United Kingdom ministers that the chimera of the Commonwealth was invented and installed.
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Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope.
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Even as scientists issue rules on chimeras in labs, a spine-tingling he-monster with the power to drag us back into the pre-Darwinian dark ages is slouching around Washington.
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More to the point, the technical distinction between levels of impossibility is simply not that relevant in terms of how these quirks function; temporal or metaphysical, what we're dealing with is the impossible; novum, erratum or chimera are just different flavours of quirk; and, functionally speaking, these different types of transgression play the same way in most readings.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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I know something of those whom we in Italy call improvisatori; and I could speak in this oriental style for eight hours together without the least effort, for it requires none to be bombastic in negligent verse, overloaded with epithets almost continually repeated, to heap combat upon combat, and to describe chimeras.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Analysis of chimeras showed that the net effect of these factors is intrinsic to the liver and may be cell autonomous.
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Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity.
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Is the ideal of banishing hunger throughout the world just a chimera?
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Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera.
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Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters?
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Likewise one may call the price index a ‘statistical illusion’ based on the chimera of a fixed basket of products as the unit of measurement.
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Just as it's not that difficult to situate novae, errata and chimerae in textual specifics ( "The door dilated," "President Himmler sat in the Oval Office," "The crescent sun was high, the moon low,") pataphysical quirks are not so hard to pin down, I think, as it may at first seem.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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The state's intelligence mechanisms are constrained by a larger structural and ideological environment and by the inherent irrationality of a foreign policy which foredooms any effort to base action on informed insight to a chimera.
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In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed.
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It's that almost every senior banker trousered bonuses over the previous few years on the basis of profits that turn out to be a chimera, an illusion, unreal.
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Is the ideal of banishing hunger throughout the world just a chimera?
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That some 175,000 Confederates eventually surrendered suggests that fighting was a possibility, not a chimera.
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She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera.
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And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that “inland palace,” he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
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They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction.
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The chimera drops the empty ampoule into the bag, and smiles.
Archive 2010-04-01
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So Dumuzi may become a chimera/arcanum as he transforms into a gazelle in his bid to escape the demons pursuing him, but relative to his society and worldscape he is disempowered, a humble shepherd, a boy crying for his mother — a nobody.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities
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Maybe we rushed too fast towards the dream we had secretly nurtured or maybe it just was just a chimera.
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He's now got a month and a half to create some convincing chimera that the American people can invest with their hopes and dreams.
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As Colin Gunton observes, ‘The biblical message, in the sense of a finally adequate or even provisionally complete account of biblical teaching, is a chimera.’
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In addition to cristate and variegated succulents the book covers all kinds of succulent plant freak growths from chimeras and uncontrolled proliferation to spiral torsion and spinelessness.
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And every cell in the chimera's body could be from either one species or the other.
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As all three books make abundantly clear, nobody nowadays believes in that old chimera, ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ history.
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Definitive truth is a chimera that does not belong to science after all.
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It is, indeed, believed that, in the time of Tiberius, there was a toparch of Edessa who had passed from the service of the Persians into that of the Romans, but his epistolary correspondence has been considered by all good critics as a chimera.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Any headlong rush in the pursuit of this chimera will be disastrous.
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Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters?
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Green ones with crosses, orange ones with lions and chimeras, all seemed to glow with pride in the high sun.
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Do you not know how idiotic the chimeras are, Kirei?
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After construction of the chimeras by overlapping PCR, all of the chimeric genes were cloned into integrating vectors under control of the SEC9 or the SPO20 promoter.
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G (1940) Demonstration of the three germ layers in the shoot apex of Datura by means of induced polyploidy in periclinal chimeras.
PLoS Biology: New Articles
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They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction.
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This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.
