Sentence examples for can be defective from inspiring English sources

Occasionally, both copies of a gene can be defective.

He noted that the genetic material of the virus can be defective, and, in fact, at a rate of 98%.

Further, it holds that (4) the good is prior to the right, that (5) right action is action that responds nondefectively to the good, that (6) there are a variety of ways in which action can be defective with respect to the good, and that (7) some of these ways can be captured and formulated as general rules.

Occasionally a water meter can be defective or a buried pipe in the yard can have a leak.

Polypeptides can be defective due to errors that might occur during or after translation.

However, the reaction yield is not always high and the resulting nanobelts can be defective.

It can itself be defective and stupid but does not prosper when it is consistently so.

Prophages can also be defective (in a state of mutational decay and not induced to lytic growth) or be satellites (not carrying their own structural protein genes but capable of encapsidation by capsid proteins of other virions) [5].

A recent paper (Landesberg et al, 2008) provides evidence that the oral mucosa can actually be defective.

A drug can also be defective if the controls on a drug and/or on the ingredients and the controls at an intermediate stage of the manufacturing process have not been carried out or if some other requirement or obligation relating to the grant of the manufacturing authorisation has not been fulfilled".

A host of programs can translate languages from one to the other, but in most cases, such translations can be outright defective at best and meaningless at worst.