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Molecular biology

RNA copied from a DNA template

An RNA molecule copied from a stretch of DNA: an enzyme called RNA polymerase reads one strand of a gene and builds a matching strand of RNA, and that RNA product is the transcript. Weiss and Gladstone's 1959 A mammalian system for the incorporation of cytidine triphosphate into ribonucleic acid reported the first enzymatic synthesis of RNA on a template, the reaction that makes a transcript; Roeder and Rutter's 1969 Multiple forms of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase in eukaryotic organisms showed that separate polymerases build different classes of transcript. The referent is a molecule made inside a living cell, counted by copy number and rate of synthesis, and it shares nothing with a court's record, a linguist's rendering of talk, or a college grade record beyond the word.[1][2]

Unit
One RNA copy of a DNA sequence, counted by copy number and synthesis rate
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Quantified by RNA sequencing, quantitative PCR, or microarray, and by assays of the rate of synthesis

Linguistics

a written version of recorded talk that marks pauses, overlaps, stretched sounds, and timing as well as words.

A written representation of recorded talk built for close study, one that marks not only the words but pauses, overlaps, stretched sounds, and timing, so that how something was said can be examined. Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's 1974 A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation set out the notation, developed by Gail Jefferson, that conversation analysts still use; Ochs's 1979 Transcription as theory argued that any such rendering is selective and interpretive rather than a neutral copy. The referent is a researcher's analytic artifact, judged by how well its conventions capture the details of interaction, and it differs from a court's official verbatim record, which aims at complete legal fidelity, as much as it differs from an RNA copy or a grade record.[3][4]

Unit
One rendered stretch of talk, marked with timing and delivery conventions
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Produced by repeated listening and applying a notation system such as the Jefferson conventions

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References

  1. Weiss, S. B., & Gladstone, L. (1959). A mammalian system for the incorporation of cytidine triphosphate into ribonucleic acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 81(15), 4118–4119. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01524a087
  2. Roeder, R. G., & Rutter, W. J. (1969). Multiple forms of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase in eukaryotic organisms. Nature, 224(5216), 234–237. https://doi.org/10.1038/224234a0
  3. Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language, 50(4), 696–735. https://doi.org/10.2307/412243
  4. Ochs, E. (1979). Transcription as theory. In E. Ochs & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), Developmental pragmatics (pp. 43–72). Academic Press.

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