There is, then, a temptation toward a soft monopoly in identifiers: the idea that there should be a definitive, authoritative copy somewhere leads to the idea of a definitive, authoritative identifier administered by a single organization.
"TV networks want to send their viewers to bed with answers, journalists need definitive copy for the Wednesday morning edition and op-ed writers must deliver their scheduled smart takes," wrote political researcher Dave Atkins in the Washington Monthly.
By now, readers understand that the definitive "copy" of any article is no longer the one on paper but the online copy, precisely because it's the version that's been read and mauled and annotated by readers.
In her edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – described as "the definitive copy of any Harry Potter book" by Sotheby's director of printed books Philip Errington – as well as telling the familiar story of how she wrote the novel "in snatched hours, in clattering cafes or in the dead of night", Rowling's notes also give away the genesis of quidditch.
Besides being widely perceived as carrying the definitive copy of life's instructions, DNA was also much easier to work with in the laboratory.
(Lycurgus did another service to the theatre by having definitive copies made of the old plays).
(Lycurgus did another service to the theatre by having definitive copies made of the old plays). The Panathenaic stadium was also built about then, partly with state funds and partly by private contributions; the land was donated by a certain Deinias, and one Eudemus of Plataea provided 1,000 yoke of draft animals to level the ground.
Although not a definitive analysis of copy number, based on the clusters produced by WhETS for the query sequences all polyamine pathway genes described in this manuscript appear to be present in single copies in each of the three wheat homoeologous genomes.
Due to incomplete coverage of the P. berghei, P. gallinacaeum and P. chabaudi genome sequence (2 3×), a definitive conclusion on the actual copy number in these species cannot be drawn, but a large copy number is highly unlikely.
The first person to come up with a definitive answer gets a free copy.
We further emphasize that our data are not intended as a definitive measure of mRNA or protein copy numbers in MM1.S cells.
