Flaxes vs Floxes – What’s the difference?

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Flaxes vs Floxes - What's the difference?
As a noun flaxes is .

As a verb floxes is (flox).

flaxes

English

Noun

(head)

    		•

    floxes

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (flox)


    • flox

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of “flanked by loxP”

    Verb

    (es)

  • (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as “loxP”
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning citation

    • , passage=In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.}}

  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Curt D. Sigmund & David E. Stec, Angiotensin Protocols, chapter=Genetic Manipulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Using Cre-loxP-Recombinase, editor=Donna H. Wang citation

    • , passage= Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.}}

    See also

    * (Floxed)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (–)

  • (FLOX)

    • Verb

    (es)

  • (astronautics, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
  • * {{quote-book, 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences citation

    • , passage= It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.}}

    See also

    * lox
    * (FLOX)
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