plural of alternating function

plural of alternate universe

plural of alterative

plural of alternative universe

(law) "Hear both sides." A legal principle of fairness given to ensure that the accused has the chance to refute an accusation.

(genetics) A process by which the exons of the RNA produced by transcription of a gene (a primary gene transcript or pre-mRNA) are reconnected in multiple ways during RNA splicing, so as to allow production of multiple forms of protein from one gene.

(rare) Characterized by wrangling; scolding.

(biology) metagenesis

(linguistics) Verner alternation

(Indo-European studies) The alternation between consonants in different forms of a word stem in the Germanic languages, as a result of Verner's law.