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translocate

(trăns-lō′kāt′, trănz-)
tr.v. translo·cated, translo·cating, translo·cates
1. To cause to change from one place or position to another; displace.
2. To transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position; cause to undergo translocation.
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Muscatine (1971), using [C.sup.14] analysis, determined that zoochlorellae translocate only 1.0% to 3.6% of the carbon they fix.
Its minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) will translocate the wild elephant to a conservation centre to prevent conflicts between the wild animals and humans from recurring.
Causing the genes in yeast to translocate has enabled the scientists to produce the GM crop that does not cross-pollinate weeds.
Proteins C and NS4B of the flavivirus Kunjin translocate independently into the nucleus.
PtdIns 3-kinase is known to translocate from the cytosol to the membrane cytoskeleton in the absence of fibrinogen only after vWf stimulation of platelets, with the ensuing activation of GpIb-V-IX complex, whereas stimulation with agonists such as ADP, epinephrine, or collagen has no such effect (14).
Ms Seneta wants the committee to establish the cause of the deaths, the delay in compensation of human/wildlife conflict victims and what appropriate measures have been put in place to prevent a recurrence."In deciding to translocate the animals, the government, through KWS, neither planned the process nor did it think it through," she told the House.
ONE OF the two tigresses the Madhya Pradesh government had planned to translocate from the Kanha National Park to the Panna Tiger Reserve has been found wounded.
For an operation to translocate wild animals, KWS has to deploy dozens of rangers and hire expensive specialised equipment like helicopters and trucks.
THE UNION ministry of environment and forests has directed the Rajasthan government to urgently translocate two tigers to the Sariska Tiger Reserve.
Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Dec.27 (ANI): In a move which may draw appreciation of animal lovers, Andhra Pradesh government has decided to translocate captive elephants from zoos and circuses to national parks and game sanctuaries.