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Look up: Barr-

  1. Barr
    Barr is a township in Macoupin County Illinois, USA. Barr is a township in Cambria County Pennsylvania, USA. Barr is a township in Daviess County Indiana, USA.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Barr
    `Barr` may refer to: In `places`: *Barr, Ayrshire, a village in Scotland *Barr, Bas-Rhin, a commune of the Bas-Rhin `département` in France *Barr Township, Illinois, US *Barr Township, Indiana, US *Barr Township, Pennsylvania, US *Perry Barr, Birmingham, England `Other`: * A.G. Barr plc, a Scottish soft drinks manufacturer, famous for making Irn-Bru * Barr Construction Ltd, a Scottish construction company * Barr Pharmaceuticals * BARR, the ali...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr

  3. Barr
    Barr is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `gateway` Barr,Barre The name Barr doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Barr seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Barr

  4. Barr Beacon
    `Barr Beacon` is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham. It is historically the site of a beacon and gives its name to nearby Great Barr. Barr Beacon is the highest point between itself and the Ural mountains. The site is on Green Belt land and is of local importance for nature conservation, as defined by Walsall Borough Council. During both 2002 and 2003 the site attracted an estimated 200,000...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Beacon

  5. Barr Beacon Language College
    Barr Beacon Language College is a mixed secondary school in Aldridge, Walsall, England. It is a large and oversubscribed school. In 2005, ex-Headteacher Hilary Sergeant resigned after staff backed a motion of no confidence in her leadership. Since, Barr Beacon has had seven different Headteachers. On April 16th 2007, Dame Maureen Brennan who left Hillcrest School and Community College became the school's eighth Headteacher.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Beacon

  6. Barr body
    Barr body: A microscopic feature of female cells due to the presence of two X chromosomes in the female. One of these X chromosomes is inactive and is crumpled up to form the Barr body.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  7. Barr body
    Small dark-staining inactivated X chromosome seen in female (XX) cells. According to the Lyon hypothesis, random inactivation occurs.
    Found on http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/dictionary/

  8. Barr body
    Small dark staining inactivated X chromosome seen in female (XX) cells. According to the Lyon hypothesis, random inactivation occurs. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. Barr body
    In those species (including humans) in which sex is determined by the presence of the Y or X chromosome rather than the diploidy of the X or Z, a `Barr body` is the inactive X chromosome in a female cell, or the inactive Z in a male (Lyon, 2003), rendered inactive in a process called Lyonization. The Lyon hypothesis states that in cells with multiple X chromosomes, all but one is inactivated during mammalian embryogenesis (Lyon, 1961). This happe...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_body

  10. Barr body
    a chromatin mass in the nucleus of somatic cells of females of most mammalian species, including humans. It represents a single, inactive, condensed X chromosome. Called also sex chromatin. See also Lyon hypothesis.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  11. Barr body
    (from the article `sex chromosome`) ...for this is that, in each somatic cell of a normal female, one of the X chromosomes is randomly deactivated. This deactivated X chromosome can be ... ...the paternal X, although the rationale for this preference is unclear. The inactivated X chromosome typically replicates later than other ... [...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/24

  12. Barr Butte
    Barr Butte is a township in Williams County North Dakota, USA.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  13. Barr chromatin body
    Synonym for sex chromatin ... Condensed chromatin of the inactivated X chromosome in female mammals (Barr body). ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  14. Barr chromatin body
    Syn: sex chromatin
    Found on http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

  15. Barr Cola
    `Barr Cola`, (previously `Strike Cola`) is a cola in the UK, made from kola nuts. It is manufactured by the A.G. Barr plc company, makers of Irn-Bru, and, like Irn-Bru, is most popular in Scotland. One of its distinctive features is that it is sold in reusable 750ml-sized glass bottles, with a refundable deposit payable on each bottle (in May 2007 this is 20p on a sale price of approx 75p). Category:Cola
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Cola

  16. Barr McClellan
    `Oliver Barr McClellan` (born 1939), the first husband of outgoing Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Carole Keeton Strayhorn, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors, BA, JD. As a student McClellan was an active supporter of Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential bid. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1964 he went to work for the administration of Kennedy's successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. Initially he was attorney-cl...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_McClel

  17. Barr Pharmaceuticals
    `Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.`, is global specialty pharmaceutical company that operates in more than 30 countries worldwide and is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. A holding company headquartered in Pomona, NY, Barr operates through its principal subsidiaries: Barr Laboratories, Inc., Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pliva d....
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Pharma

  18. Barr Pharmaceuticals
    (from the article `Croatia`) Economically, the year was marked by a war between Iceland-based Actavis and American Barr Pharmaceuticals over acquisition of stock in the Croatian ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/24

  19. Barr Smith Library
    The `Barr Smith Library` is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus. The library was named in honour of Robert Barr Smith who donated £9000 to buy books. In 1920 his family gave an extra £11,000 in the form of an endowment and in 1928 his son, Tom Elder Barr Smith, gave £30,000 for the Barr Smith library building.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Smith_

  20. Barr Trail
    `Barr Trail` is a popular 12.6 mile trail that climbs 7300 feet from Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA to the top of Pikes Peak. The trail is rated more difficult because of its long sustained grade rising to an especially high elevation. Halfway up the trail is `Barr Camp`, two acres with a cabin, benches, and picnic table that provides both overnight accommodations and food and drink for purchase. Barr Trail was designed and built by Fred Barr fr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Trail

  21. Barr Tribunal
    The `Barr Tribunal` was a Public Inquiry established by Resolutions passed by the Dáil Éireann and the Seanad Éireann on the 17th and 18th April 2002, and by Instrument entitled Tribunals of Inquiry Evidence Acts 1921 (Establishment of Tribunal) Instrument (No. 2) 2002 made by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on 1 July 2002. The sole member of the Tribunal was Mr Justice Robert Barr. The Tribunal was charged with investigating 't...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Tribun

  22. Barr-
    `Barr-` is a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'. In addition to the common noun bar, it explains many place names as: * Barr, commune of Alsace, France. * Bar, commune of Corrèze, Limousin, France, * Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-sur-Seine, communes of Aube, Champagne, France, * Bar-le-Duc, commune of Lorraine, France, etc. but not Le Bar-sur-Loup, a former `Albarn > Aubarn`. In Alps, the word applies to rock...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr-

  23. Barr-Reeve Junior-Senior High School
    is a public school located in Montgomery, Indiana serving Barr and Reeve Townships and is located in southeastern Daviess County. The school is a consolidation of Alfordsville and Montgomery High Schools and opened 1965.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr-Reeve_

  24. Barr, Alfred (Hamilton), Jr
    (1902-1981) US art historian and museum administrator. He taught the first American college course in modern art at Wellesley College in 1926 and was the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art in New...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  25. Barr, Alfred H., Jr.
    (from the article `art criticism`) ...the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1929 under the auspices of the Rockefeller family was the consummate sign of the social and economic ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/24


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