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An increased or decreased probability of encountering a particular dinucleotide (or trinucleotide) sequence in a genome, used to predict the expected cut frequency of a restriction enzyme.
Ãâó: www.promega.com/guides/re_guide/glossary/glossary1...
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Human choices or any other factors beside the treatments being tested that affect a study's results. Clinical trials use many methods to avoid bias, because biased results may not be correct.
Ãâó: www.cancercare.mb.ca/CIO/cio_glossary.shtml
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1. Prejudice or discrimination. (See DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION) 2. Error which is directional, as opposed to noise, or random error. Accuracy is freedom from bias. (See ERROR, NOISE) (MP)
Ãâó: www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/biodict.htm
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The diagonal direction on a piece of woven cloth. Cloth stretches more along the bias than in the directions parallel to the woven threads.
Ãâó: memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qltgloss.html
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the amount we are off from the true value. How wrong we are when we don
Ãâó: www.jhsph.edu/publichealthexperts/Glossary.htm
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