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How To Use defective In A Sentence

• Often they were offloading defective goods they could not sell at a shop.
• Barot A, Kleckner N (2008) Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or elliptical styli.
• Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color.
• We mutagenized a wild-type strain and sought animals that were defective in cultivation-temperature avoidance.
• It is caused by a defective gene that is carried by one in 25 people. The Sun
• It turns out that they were moral defectives, willing to bear false witness to a world audience, and it looks like Francisco is yet another ID advocate with a degaussed moral compass. zcowboy The New Antievolution Strategy: Just Make Bizarre Stuff Up - The Panda's Thumb
• If the goods prove defective, the customer has the right to compensation.
• The fertilised embryos are then tested for the defective gene in a lab and those that are not affected are implanted in the womb. The Sun
• Some people think they can use drugs to fix these genetic defectives, but that's obviously an exercise in futility – you can't overcome something that's embedded in every cell in your body. Child Abuse Alert