Instructive

Instructive

Adevelopmental influence that dictates the fate of a cell rather than simply permitting differentiation to occur.

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instructional

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A text type in which the focus is on the formation of future behavior, either ‘with option’ as in advertising or ‘without option’ as in legal instruction (e.g. treaties, ...

instructive

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Adevelopmental influence that dictates the fate of a cell rather than simply permitting differentiation to occur.

instructive

Education; SAT vocabulary

Conveying knowledge.

instructions

Legal services; Courts

Judge's explanation to the jury before it begins deliberations of the question it must answer and the applicable law governing the case. (Also referred to as charge.)

instruction

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In digital computer operations, a set of bits defining an operation. Consists of an operation code specifying the operation to be performed, one or more operands or their ...

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In a programming language, an expression that specifies one operation and identifies its operands, if any.

medial longitudinal fasciculus

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tract that carries excitatory projections from the abducens nucleus to the contralateral oculomotor nucleus; important in coordinating conjugate eye movements.

commissures

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tracts that cross the midline of the brain. See also anterior commissure.

postganglionic axons

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Axons that link visceral motor neurons in autonomic ganglia to their targets.

climbing fibers

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that originate in the inferior olive, ascend through the inferior cerebellar peduncle, and make terminal arborizations that invest the dendritic tree of Purkinje cells.

saccades

Biology; Neuroscience

Ballistic, conjugate eye movements that change the point of foveal fixation.

olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs)

Biology; Neuroscience

Bipolar neurons in olfactory epithelium that contain receptors for odorants.

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