Ness

Ness may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

Loch Ness, a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, noted for the Loch Ness Monster

River Ness, which links the loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK

Ness Islands, in the River Ness

Ness Islands, in the River Ness

Ness, Lewis, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK

Ness Waterfall, Scotland

Ness Point, most easterly point of the UK, located in Lowestoft, England

Ness, Cheshire, England, a village

Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England

United States

Ness City, Kansas

Ness Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

Mount Ness, Palmer Land, Antarctica

Ness Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Organizations

Ness Foundation, a medical research charity near Inverness, Scotland

New England Skeptical Society (NESS)

Ness Technologies, an Israel-based provider of IT services.

People

Ness (surname)

Ness (given name)

Ness, a name sometimes used by French rapper Nessbeal (born 1978)

Ness, nickname of Alma Moreno (born 1959), Filipina actress and politician

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Ness (surname)

The surname Ness may refer to:

Politics

Don Ness (born 1974), American politician from Duluth, Minnesota

James Van Ness (1808–1872), seventh mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856

Steinar Ness (born 1959), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party

Arts and entertainment

Mike Ness (born 1962), American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion

Evaline Ness (1911–1986), American commercial artist and illustrator for award winning children's books

Jennifer Ness (born 1972), English actress best known for her role as murderess Kris Yates in the ITV drama Bad Girls

Patrick Ness (born 1971), American author, journalist and lecturer

Tigilau Ness, Niuean New Zealand activist and reggae artist

Sports

Brad Ness, Australian wheelchair basketballer

Erin Ness (born 1978), American poker player, former photo producer for Maxim Magazine, and television personality

Harry Ness, a footballer

Jack Ness (1885–1957), first baseman in Major League Baseball

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EarthBound

EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, is a 1994 Japanese role-playing video game co-developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. It is the second game of the Mother series, and the only one to be released in the English language until its predecessor was released under the name EarthBound Beginnings in 2015 as part of Wii U's Virtual Console.EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and in North America on June 5, 1995.

The game had a lengthy development period which spanned five years. Its making involved a number of Japanese luminaries, including writer Shigesato Itoi, musician/songwriter Keiichi Suzuki, sound designer Hirokazu Tanaka, and future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Themed around an idiosyncratic portrayal of Americana and Western culture, it subverted popular role-playing game traditions by featuring a real world setting while parodying numerous staples of the genre. Itoi, who directed the game, wanted it to reach non-gamers with its intentionally goofy tone. It was heavily marketed upon release via a promotional campaign which sardonically proclaimed "this game stinks".

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Hox gene

Hox genes (also known as homeotic genes) are a group of related genes that control the body plan of an embryo along the cranio-caudal (head-tail) axis. After the embryonic segments have formed, the Hox proteins determine the type of segment structures (e.g. legs, antennae, and wings in fruit flies or the different types of vertebrae in humans) that will form on a given segment. Hox proteins thus confer segmental identity, but do not form the actual segments themselves.

Hox genes are defined as having the following properties:

Their protein product is a transcription factor

They contain a DNA sequence known as the homeobox

In many animals, the organization of the Hox genes in the chromosome is the same as the order of their expression along the anterior-posterior axis of the developing animal, and are thus said to display colinearity.

Hox genes code for transcription factors

The products of Hox genes are Hox proteins. Hox proteins are transcription factors, which are proteins that are capable of binding to specific nucleotide sequences on the DNA called enhancers where they either activate or repress genes. The same Hox protein can act as a repressor at one gene and an activator at another. The ability of Hox proteins to bind DNA is conferred by a part of the protein referred to as the homeodomain. The homeodomain is a 60-amino-acid-long DNA-binding domain (encoded by its corresponding 180-base-pair DNA sequence, the homeobox). This amino acid sequence folds into a "helix-turn-helix" (i.e. homeodomain fold) motif that is stabilized by a third helix. The consensus polypeptide chain is (typical intron position noted with dashes):

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