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单词 kappa
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kappan.

Brit. /ˈkapə/, U.S. /ˈkæpə/
Etymology: < Greek κάππα.
1. The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, Κ, κ.
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c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iii. 20 Thei clepen hem..α Alpha..κ Kappa, λ Lambda.
1746 T. Nugent tr. C. Lancelot et al. New Method of learning Greek Tongue I. ii. 3 The Greeks have 24 Letters, whose Figure, Name, and Power are as followeth:..Thêta..Iôta..Cappa..Lambda [etc.].
1746 T. Nugent tr. C. Lancelot et al. New Method of learning Greek Tongue I. xi. 41 Κάππα, Kappa, from the Hebrew Cap or Caph, or rather from the ancient Kappa.
1791 R. P. Knight Analyt. Ess. Greek Alphabet i. 5 After the invention of the Kappa, the simple Gamma seems to have fallen into disuse in some dialects.
1791 R. P. Knight Analyt. Ess. Greek Alphabet i. 5 The harshest and most emphatical palatial consonant.. is the Kappa.
1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 55 Sigma Eps at Yale, calling itself the ‘Kappa’ chapter, established a branch ‘Alpha’ chapter at Amherst.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. viii. 453 The qoph, which expresses the Semitic emphatic k, was adopted [sc. into the Greek alphabet] as koppa, differentiated from kappa.
2. Biology. An agent in some strains of Paramecium aurelia that confers on cells possessing it the property of producing a substance toxic to Paramecium cells lacking it, and exists as small cytoplasmic particles ( kappa particles) capable of reproducing independently of the cell containing them and of infecting other Paramecium cells; these particles collectively. Frequently attributive.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [noun] > other organelles or contents
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plastid1885
molluscum corpuscle1886
hyalosome1889
molluscum body1892
statolith1892
dictyosome1893
centrosome1895
Nissl body1898
Nissl granule1898
Nissl substance1899
archespore1901
blepharoplast1907
liposome1910
statocone1910
kinetosome1912
Golgi body1916
kinetoplast1925
lipochondrion1936
microsome1943
kappa1945
Pappenheimer body1947
microbody1954
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1945 T. M. Sonneborn in Amer. Naturalist 79 319 The alternative characters, killer and non-killer, are determined by a pair of allelic genes, K and k, and a cytoplasmic factor, which may be called kappa. Clones are killers only when both the dominant gene K and the cytoplasmic factor kappa are present; they are non-killers when kappa is absent, regardless of genic constitution.
1945 T. M. Sonneborn in Amer. Naturalist 79 332 How can the unequal division of kappa at fission be accounted for?
1947 Genetics 32 106 Under conditions in which the concentration of kappa decreases, two methods may be used to find the number of kappa particles per original killer cell.
1951 G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) ii. 91 The factor kappa can reproduce itself in the cytoplasm but only if the gene K is present in the nucleus.
1965 A. R. Peacocke & R. B. Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity ii. 7 These so-called kappa particles are probably best regarded as self-determining invaders and not as part of the normal cell.
1969 J. R. Preer in Res. Protozool. 174 Kappa itself has been shown..to respire and utilize glucose and sucrose in vitro. The presence in kappa of the biochemical apparatus required for such a sophisticated metabolism clearly eliminates the possibility that it is a virus.
1969 J. R. Preer in Res. Protozool. 183 The kappas of stocks 7 and 51.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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