Hyperproficient
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Extraordinarily proficient; superproficient.
"The process is thought to have begun some 3% billion years ago when the earliest life forms first arose in the hot, organic soup-like seas of our primitive planet. Insight into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the inheritance of biological diversity is a prerequisite for a fuller understanding of life itself. DNA, in its unique role as the purveyor of the genetic endowment of all living matter, has the delicately balanced function of serving as the source of hereditary stability and, at the same time, as the source of the variability needed for the long-term population fitness of any species. Clearly, maximal stability of the genetic material would be beneficial to a well-adapted population of organisms in a stable environment; on the other hand, the opportunity to select from a preexisting bank of mutations would be advantageous to that same population when confronted with rapidly shifting environmental conditions. The relative emphasis which an organism places at any given time on these two opposing roles of DNA—constancy and change—is itself under genetic control since bacterial mutants have been isolated (e.g. mutators or antimutators, and recombination deficient or -hyperproficient mutants) which are either more or less genetically stable than the wild-type."
Example
More examples"The process is thought to have begun some 3% billion years ago when the earliest life forms first arose in the hot, organic soup-like seas of our primitive planet. Insight into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the inheritance of biological diversity is a prerequisite for a fuller understanding of life itself. DNA, in its unique role as the purveyor of the genetic endowment of all living matter, has the delicately balanced function of serving as the source of hereditary stability and, at the same time, as the source of the variability needed for the long-term population fitness of any species. Clearly, maximal stability of the genetic material would be beneficial to a well-adapted population of organisms in a stable environment; on the other hand, the opportunity to select from a preexisting bank of mutations would be advantageous to that same population when confronted with rapidly shifting environmental conditions. The relative emphasis which an organism places at any given time on these two opposing roles of DNA—constancy and change—is itself under genetic control since bacterial mutants have been isolated (e.g. mutators or antimutators, and recombination deficient or -hyperproficient mutants) which are either more or less genetically stable than the wild-type."
Etymology
From hyper- + proficient.
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