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conserved, ppl. a.|kənˈsɜːvd|
[f. conserve v. + -ed.]
Kept in safety, in existence, etc. (see the vb.); preserved.
1684Ray Corr. (1848) 138 The leaf you sent [is] a perfect one and well conserved. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 254 The concentrated or conserved essence of what men can speak and shew. 1880T. Hardy Trumpet-Major 271 With the conserved hope of more than half a year.
b. well conserved (= F. bien conservé): said of persons of advancing years who still retain much of the freshness and vigour of youth.
[1849Thackeray Pendennis xiv. (1885) 125 I'm three years younger than you, and twice as well conservé.] 1852― Esmond ii. iii. (1876) 176 She is pretty and well conserved.
▸ Molecular Biol. Of (a part of) a nucleic acid or protein molecule: showing little or no variation from one class, individual, organism, etc., to another (usually indicative of similar functional significance or evolutionary preservation).
1965Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 54 491 (title) Gene conservation in Bacillus species, I. Conserved genetic and nucleic acid base sequence homologies. 1973Nature New Biol. 31 Oct. 261/2 The complement of the conserved sequence, UAAUGAUC, immediately suggests an important function in protein synthesis. 1990EMBO Jrnl. 9 2518/1 This conserved domain is required for DNA-binding and subunit dimerization. 2001Biochemistry 40 14976 RNase III family members also exhibit a ‘catalytic’ domain, in part defined by a set of highly conserved amino acids. |