transcription Definition
tran·scrip·tion (tran skrip′s̸hən)
noun
- the act or process of transcribing
- something transcribed; specif.,
- a transcript; copy
- an arrangement of a piece of music for an instrument, voice, or ensemble other than that for which it was originally written
- a recording made for radio or television broadcasting
Etymology: L transcriptio < transcriptus: see transcript
transcription Related Forms
tran·scrip′·tional adjective
transcription Usage Examples
Converse of object
- activate: However, DNA binding proteins without transcriptional activation domains may function as competitors, binding promoter sequences without the ability to activate transcription.
- modulate: A number of regions in the promoter have been identified that modulate gene transcription.
- annotate: An annotated transcription of Archives 1717 is available on a separate web-page devoted to the Aldrich bequest.
Adjective modifier
- phonetic: The principal reason for using phonetic transcription is easily stated.
- normalized: This in turn has a ' Switch to Normalized Transcription ' command in the same place.
- phonemic: A variation on both the above activities is for you or the learners to prepare phonemic transcriptions of vocabulary with a deliberate mistake.
- orthographic: For an orthographic transcription, decisions will have to be taken over spelling conventions.
- word-level: The methods investigated use word-level transcriptions, and information derived from models of speaker activity and speaker turn patterns.
- prosodic: Roach and Arnfield ( 1995 ) describe their procedure for automatic alignment of audio with prosodic transcriptions, although this is highly sophisticated operation.
Modifies a noun
- factor: Transcription factors are proteins which bind to control regions of DNA.
- elongation: Both the pre-mRNA processing reactions of capping and splicing were also subsequently shown to interconnect with transcription elongation.
- activator: Foreign transcription activators are inserted into the genome, and provide an output for underlying gene regulatory networks.
- terminator: The promoters used in these constructions included maize ubiquitin and CaMV 35S while the transcription terminators were nos [ 16 ] .
- initiation: The control of expression of many genes in eukaryotes occurs at the level of transcription initiation.
Noun used with modifier
- helix-loop-helix: Function: A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor required in early B-cell development ( Johnson and Calame 2003 ).
- word-for-word: Work may be plagiarized if it consists of close paraphrase or unacknowledged summary of a source, as well as word-for-word transcription.
- homeodomain: Function: A homeodomain transcription factor that is an essential regulator of early development and embryonic stem cell identity.
- braille: A growing number of prisons have set up braille transcription services.
- vitro: In mammals we make use of RNAi techniques as well as in vitro transcription analysis.
- zinc: WT1 encodes a multifunctional zinc finger protein transcription factor which also binds mRNA.
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