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constitutive
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constitutive /con·sti·tu·tive/ (kon-stich´u-tiv) produced constantly or in fixed amounts, regardless of environmental conditions or demand.
constitutive
produced at a steady rate, independent of internal or external stimuli. Said of enzymes, RNA or protein by an organism.

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Others have seen that these genes are turned on constitutively in the gut, but seeing how they can be induced elsewhere is new," said Pulendran.
In academic essays on modern Islamic thought, two Islamist academics, Suha Taji-Farouki and Bashir M Nafi, observe: "Rather than being a development within cultural traditions that is internally generated, 20th-century Islamic thought is constitutively responsive; it is substantially a reaction to extrinsic challenges".
 
 
 
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