Nascent

(adjective)

Emerging; just coming into existence.

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Examples of Nascent in the following topics:

  • Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement

    • Cyclic ketones have two alpha-carbon atoms, each of which might shift to the nascent 1º-carbocation.

  • Deconstructivism

    • Though postmodernist and nascent deconstructivist architects published theories alongside each other in the journal Oppositions, that journal's contents mark the beginning of a decisive break between the two movements.

  • Infant Industry Argument

    • In Brazil in the 1980's there were heavy protective policies in place to defend Brazil's nascent computer industry from highly evolved competitors internationally.

  • Cancer Immunology

    • Lymphocytes act as sentinels in recognizing and eliminating continuously-arising, nascent transformed cells.

  • The Incorporation of Nonstandard Amino Acids

    • Also, most nascent polypeptides start with the amino acid methionine because the "start" codon on mRNA also codes for this amino acid.

  • Initiation of Transcription in Prokaryotes

    • Each subunit has a unique role: the two α-subunits are necessary to assemble the polymerase on the DNA; the β-subunit binds to the ribonucleoside triphosphate that will become part of the nascent "recently-born" mRNA molecule; and the β' binds the DNA template strand.

  • Elongation and Termination in Prokaryotes

    • Since the base pairing between DNA and RNA is not stable enough to maintain the stability of the mRNA synthesis components, RNA polymerase acts as a stable linker between the DNA template and the nascent RNA strands to ensure that elongation is not interrupted prematurely.

  • Elongation and Termination in Eukaryotes

    • These two proteins form the base of a complicated protein complex that forms in this region before CPSF cleaves the nascent pre-mRNA at a site 10-30 nucleotides downstream from the AAUAAA site.
    • This somehow triggers RNA Polymerase III to both release the nascent RNA and disengage from the template DNA strand.

  • The "New Negro"

    • According to Locke, The New Negro, whose publication by Albert and Charles Boni in December 1925 symbolized the culmination of the first stage of the New Negro Renaissance in literature, was put together "to document the New Negro culturally and socially - to register the transformations of the inner and outer life of the Negro in America that have so significantly taken place in the last few years. " Highlighting its national and international scope, Locke compared the New Negro movement with the "nascent movements of folk expression and self determination" that were taking place internationally.

  • "Mother" Jones

    • She joined the nascent labor movement and the Knights of Labor , a predecessor to the Industrial Workers of the World who where later dissolved after they were accused of anarchism after the Haymarket Affair.