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to recode

to recode

1 9.1
To change a living thing's genetic code so it makes different amino acids
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈkoʊd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recodificar
  • The team successfully managed to recode the genetic material of a fungus to enhance its growth rate.

Examples

  • He's putting code, he's recoding parts of how E coli works so it speaks B codes.

  • If Being is to be understood, as Vattimo insists it is, as what is never fully present but is only historically 'transmitted' and recollected, as what is declining and gives beings in the horizon of this decline, then we must see Being as what can be historically 'recoded' according to the messages that arrive to us in a given era.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Imagine if you could hack into the hard drive of any living organism and recode its DNA.

  • Which can be trivially conferred by recoding our DNA/RNA and ribosomes to something other than the universal code.

    Blog text (28)
  • In the late 1950s, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, pioneers of information-processing AI, wrote a program called the General Problem Solver (GPS) that attempted to capture human reasoning and recode it as computational rules.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Scientists are working to recode the DNA of certain bacteria so they can produce more effective medicines.

  • Researchers aim to recode the genetic sequences in plants to make them resistant to pests.

Synonyms

to edit
vsto recode
  • Specialized
3 5.8

To change a living thing's DNA to add or remove genes

reassigns codons to make them code for different or nonstandard amino acids

How Extensive

rewrite
  • Specialized
3 7.2
to reengineer
  • Specialized
3 5.5
to recode
  • Specialized
1 9.1
to edit
  • Specialized
3 5.8
to modify
268 3.2

Surface Forms

recode infinitive
recoded past
recoded past participle
recoding present participle
recodes third person singular

Morphology

recode = code (transparent) = re + code

The genetics sense still follows the regular meaning of 're-' plus 'code', namely to code again or alter the coding.

Etymology

Recode comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and code meaning 'a system of signs or rules', so it literally means 'write the code again'. In genetics, that idea applies to the 'genetic code' or DNA 'instructions', so to recode a genome is to change those instructions so parts of DNA make different or new proteins.