Given the fact that point mutation, recombination, gene duplication, and genome rearrangement only operate on pre-existing genes, it would have been disadvantageous for early eukaryotes to completely abandon their ability to acquire ready-to-use genes from other sources.
In this scenario, prepared founders should have a shopping list of companies they'd like to acquire and be ready to pounce at an opportunity to make an attractive deal.
But when Mr. Kaplan decided he was ready to acquire a hobby project, he began looking for something different.
But the day may not be far off when the Chinese are ready to acquire a big Western auction house for themselves.The European Fine Art Fair will be held at Maastricht, Netherlands, between March 12th and 21st 2010.
But variable-rate bonds had a hitch: many investors would purchase them only if a bank like Depfa was hired as a buyer of last resort, ready to acquire bonds from investors who could find no other buyers.
Based on gene expression studies, an authentic transcript tends to be maintained the major function, whereas a minor transcript tends to be free from selective pressure and ready to acquire a novel function31.
Last month Mayor Thomas R. Suozzi announced that the city was ready to acquire, by condemnation if necessary, a dilapidated and largely empty 35,000-square-foot building on School Street to accommodate the store.
The right of the plaintiff in error to sell his property was directly involved and necessarily impaired, because it was held, in effect, that he could not sell the lot to a person of color who was willing and ready to acquire the property and had obligated himself to take it.
Also, according to reports, Rancorp Holdings is ready to acquire Kraft's Post cereal business for roughly $3 billion.
In a bid to strengthen its position in emerging markets, British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is reportedly getting ready to acquire a minority stake in Africa's biggest generic drugmaker.
4INFO is trying to position itself as the largest mobile advertiser, SMS and beyond, and the company is ready to acquire other players to get it there.
