Synecdoche, figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, as in the expression "hired hands" for workmen or, less commonly, the whole represents a part, as in the use of the word "society" to mean high society.
One solution is to zoom in and let a part represent the whole, like Luke Dittrich did in his 2011 tour de force in Esquire about twenty-three people who hid in a gas-station walk-in cooler during the devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
Shakespeare constantly reflects on the problem of synecdoche in his plays, a rhetorical term meaning "the part representing the whole".
Further, if an instance representing the "whole" is removed, the parts may or may not be removed.
In this case, four parts have been drawn representing the whole.
In brief, it is thought that the posterior hippocampus represents environmental detail and/or encodes space, whereas the anterior part represents the environment more as a whole and/or subserves behavior.
Since the dubious ORFs are now known to be non-conserved and thus presumably non-coding, it follows that one can treat the expression measured by the corresponding probes as representing the whole non-coding parts of the yeast genome.
Additionally, if the instance representing the "whole" is removed, the parts are removed as well.
The government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an integral part of China.
However what has been drawn, three parts, does represent the whole ribbon.
