See Also:

pulsion (iou) and alu (medicine)


pulsion (iou)



pulsion noun. M17.
[Late Latin pulsio(n-), from Latin puls- pa. ppl stem of pellere drive, beat: see -ION.]
The action or an act of driving or pushing something, propulsion.

alu (medicine)


Alu


1. Type II restriction endonuclease, isolated from Arthrobacter luteus. The recognition sequence is 5' AG/CT 3'.

2. Alu sequences are highly repetitive sequences found in large numbers 100-500,000) in the human genome and that are cleaved more than once within each sequence by the Alu endonuclease. The Alu sequences look like DNA copies of mRNA because they have a 3' poly A tail and flanking repeats.