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  2. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  3. Alternative splicing - Wikipedia

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    Alternative splicing, alternative RNA splicing, or differential splicing, is an alternative splicing process during gene expression that allows a single gene to produce different splice variants. For example, some exons of a gene may be included within or excluded from the final RNA product of the gene. [ 1 ]

  4. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.

  5. Small nuclear RNA - Wikipedia

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    The minor spliceosome splices U12-type introns. The two types of introns mainly differ in their splicing sites: U2-type introns have GT-AG 5and 3splice sites while U12-type introns have AT-AC at their 5and 3′ ends. The minor spliceosome carries out its function through a different pathway from the major spliceosome. [citation needed]

  6. List of puzzle topics - Wikipedia

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    Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle; Einstein's Puzzle; Eternity puzzle; Fifteen puzzle; Fox ...

  7. Scrabble variants - Wikipedia

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    Words can be formed as in Scrabble as well as by playing on top of previously formed words. When playing over a word, at least one tile from the original word must be incorporated into the new word. All tiles, with the exception of the Qu tile in certain circumstances, are worth the same, with additional points scored for higher stacks of letters.

  8. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  9. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Single carrick bend – refers to different knots similar to the Carrick bend; Single hitch – an overhand knot tied around or through an object; Slack line hitch Slip knot – knots which attach a line to an object and tighten when tension is applied; a type of knot designed to bind one end of a rope to the middle of another