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In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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Brannan urged Young to bring the Mormon pioneers to California as was previously planned , but Young rejected the proposal in favor of settling in what is present-day Utah .
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Brannan wanted Young to bring the Mormons to California , but Young wanted to stay in Utah .


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A reverse transcriptase ( RT ) is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA ( cDNA ) from an RNA template , a process termed " reverse transcription " .
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A reverse transcriptase is an enzyme which works ' backwards ' from RNA to DNA .


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John David Jackson ( January 19 , 1925 – May 20 , 2016 ) was a Canadian – American physics professor emeritus at the University of California , Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .
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John David Jackson ( January 19 , 1925 – May 20 , 2016 ) was a Canadian – American physics .