This is the order of symmetry of the crystal (in other words, the number of ways it can be rotated to produce a pattern identical to the original).
It will also need to be resistant to viruses, which will otherwise be a big threat to such a concentrated population of identical organisms.
From there it may be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, which would have to consider whether South Carolina can be blocked from implementing a law identical to the one the High Court approved for Indiana, simply because South Carolina is a "covered" jurisdiction under the Voting Rights Act.
The draft that I have seen says the European court should not be able to examine cases that are "identical in substance to a claim that has been considered by a national court".
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The dipole moment of a hexamer of water molecules turns out to be almost identical to the dipole moment of bulk quantities of water indicating that liquid water is made up of cage-shaped hexamers.
All legislation has to be approved in identical form by both Houses of Parliament and where a bill is changed by one, those changes are sent to the other for approval - if there is no agreement, the bill bounces between them, in so-called parliamentary ping-pong.
This means that behavioural traits with a large genetic component are more likely to be shared by identical twins than fraternal twins.
The cloning element is there purely for the purposes of creating tissues genetically identical to the patient that won't be rejected, and that's a nice idea.
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Joe and I were campaigning in Iowa, and you'd go into small towns where you wouldn't think there would ever be a problem with the drug trade, and the methamphetamine trade was identical to the crack trade in the big cities -- same patterns of young people getting drawn in.
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That theory received a big boost when tests on the British virus showed it to be virtually identical to the strain that had caused the Hungarian outbreak.
Because a field trial with a genetically engineered plant may be 10 to 20 times more expensive than the same experiment performed with a plant that has identical properties but that was modified with less precise genetic techniques, genetic engineering with the best techniques has been vastly under-used for the past 25 years.
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One of the odd little details of the past week is the fact that both David Petraeus and John Allen allowed themselves to be used in a messy custody battle involving the son of Jill Kelley's identical sister.
Because every officer in a department needs to be able to unlock cuffs that another officer has locked, every cuff of a certain model opens with an identical key.
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Designated a county constituency and containing a great deal more territory than just the ancient city, this seat was drawn to be identical to the City of Durham local government unit and its name distinguishes it from the six other seats in County Durham.
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It's a little like the urban legend about a garment vendor who sent a designer coat overseas to be copied, only to get back 10, 000 coats with an identical stain on the sleeve.
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At first glance, the four Japanese men at the booth could have been doing anything on their MacBook Pros -- there wasn't a musical instrument in sight -- but upon closer inspection, they each appeared to be holding identical loupe-like devices, connected to each laptop via USB.
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