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Descriptive vs Sequencing - What's the difference?

descriptive | sequencing |

As nouns the difference between descriptive and sequencing

is that descriptive is an adjective (or other descriptive word while sequencing is the procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein (protein sequencing) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene (gene sequencing.

As an adjective descriptive

is of or relating to description.

As a verb sequencing is

present participle of lang=en.

descriptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to description.
  • (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
  • (linguistics)   Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
  • (science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

    Antonyms

    * (science) prescriptive, normative, non-descriptive

    Derived terms

    * descriptively * descriptiveness * descriptive ethics * descriptive geometry * descriptive statistics

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An adjective (or other descriptive word)
  • See also

    * (projectlink) * (projectlink) ----

    sequencing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (molecular biology) the procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein (protein sequencing) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene (gene sequencing)
  • Verb

    (head)