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The phrase "a drive to replicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong motivation or desire to reproduce something, whether it's an idea, process, or result.
Example: "The team's success was fueled by a drive to replicate the innovative strategies of industry leaders."
Alternatives: "a desire to reproduce" or "an urge to duplicate".
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Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in a drive to replicate in digital TV software the success it has achieved with its Windows operating system in personal computers.
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The authors actually touch on this notion, when they speculate as to whether introns are genomic parasites and how the host may have evolved the spliceosome as an adaptive response to intron invasion, but an explicit connection between their selfish drive to replicate and the origin of introns is not made.
After exposure to HIV-1, dendritic cells continue to present superantigens and antigens, forming clusters with T cells that are driven to replicate.
Choose a drive to optimize.
Select a drive to analyze.
If spliceosomal introns indeed evolved from Group II introns, as the authors maintain, then the initial intron invasion of eukaryotic genomes would have been driven, to some extent, by a kind of selfish genetic element with its own internal drive mechanism to replicate within the genome.
However, the level of cycE and activity of cycE-Cdk2 can be aberrantly regulated and this excessive activity of the cycE-Cdk2 complex, in turn, drives cells to replicate their DNA prematurely, resulting in genome instability [8], [9] and tumorigenesis [10].
In the end, though, it may be Pepperberg herself who has the greatest drive and capacity to replicate her own work, although she has suffered from funding shortfalls; over the decades, she has received eight grants from the National Science Foundation, but she does a lot of fund-raising on her own.
The drive clearly tries to replicate the MacBook's premium feel and look, but actually fails.
So, OK, it's a tough formula to replicate.
So, uh, that might be a hard one to replicate.
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