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  2. Primer extension - Wikipedia

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    Primer extension is a technique whereby the 5' ends of RNA can be mapped - that is, they can be sequenced and properly identified. Primer extension can be used to determine the start site of transcription (the end site cannot be determined by this method) by which its sequence is known.

  3. Reverse engineering - Wikipedia

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    The Tupolev Tu-4, a Soviet bomber built by reverse engineering captured Boeing B-29 Superfortresses. Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight ...

  4. ZIP Code Tabulation Area - Wikipedia

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    ZCTAs are not developed for ZIP codes that comprise only a small number of addresses. [3] Several ZCTAs represent ZIPs that no longer exist due to realignment by the USPS. There are approximately 42,000 ZIP Codes and 32,000 ZCTAs. The reason that there is not one ZCTA for every ZIP Code is that only populated areas are included in the Census ...

  5. Smacker video - Wikipedia

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    Smacker video supports 256 colors, but no transparency support. [2] While being a palette-based format, which is inherently limited to having not more than 256 colors in each frame, Smacker videos may still contain more colors in total due to "palette rotation", whereby the palette is updated on a per-frame basis. [2]

  6. App (file format) - Wikipedia

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    The HarmonyOS App Pack or the App file, identified with the file extension ".app", [1] serves as the file format used by the HarmonyOS operating system. It functions as a native HarmonyOS app for distribution and installation through Huawei AppGallery, or for distribution through Huawei Ability Gallery in respect of installation-free apps under both former classic dual-framework and current ...

  7. Telephone numbers in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has assigned country code 379 to Vatican City, [1] but it is not in use. Vatican telephone numbers are in the form 06 698xxxxx, where 06 the area code for Rome, which surrounds Vatican City. For dialing calls within Vatican City or to Italian destinations the area code must be dialed.

  8. Extension tube - Wikipedia

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    Since extension tubes do not have optics, they do not affect the optical quality of a lens. Due to their function, there are other effects: decrease of light; shallower depth of field; and loss of ability to focus at infinity. The longer the extension tube, the closer the lens can focus.

  9. Proprietary file format - Wikipedia

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    One of the contentious issues surrounding the use of proprietary formats is the control of the files. [citation needed] If the information is stored in a way which the user's software provider tries to keep secret, the user may store the information by virtue of having generated it, but they have no way to retrieve it except by using a version of the original software which produced the file.