â The Republican National Committee announced Friday that it will sanction at least nine presidential primary debates, starting this August in Ohio and continuing through March 2016, with the potential to add three more. The schedule, obtained first by POLITICO, was rolled out at the RNCâs winter meeting here.
Locus. From Latin: locus - place. Definition: A shape created by the set of points whose position satisfies a given set of rules. Try this In the figure below, the small gray dots represent all the possible points on the plane.
A locus is the specific physical location of a gene or other DNA sequence on a chromosome, like a genetic street address. The plural of locus is loci.