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Operon
- noun - a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
Oppugn
- verb - challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; "We must question your judgment in this matter"
- question, dispute
Option
- noun - one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
- the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
- the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
Orcein
- - A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, C7H7NO3, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Ordain
- verb - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
- invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"
- issue an order
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
Oregon
- noun - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
Origan
- unknown - Another name for marjoram.
Origen
- noun - Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254)
Origin
- noun - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
Orison
- noun - reverent petition to a deity