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I have got the sequence result (Illumina). The sequence is huge and I can't predict anything from the sequence. I have gone through different database like Metacyc, Biocyc etc.
A healthy immune response to a bacterial infection includes "memory" to permit the body to thwart subsequent exposure to same bacteria
With many foods today containing chemicals, agents and preservatives etc...
I have an AP Bio class where I have to name 3 properties of water and I chose adhesion and cohesion for one of them. I'm having trouble finding out how exactly trees use adhesion and cohesion to mov
CJ is having surgery next week to remove a malignant breast tumor, following discovery of a lump in the breast and a biopsy. Her mother and aunt have had breast cancer.
Say I have three unicellular organisms: a eukariote, a bacterium and an archaeon. If I cut off nutrition from them at the same time.
I have read that a chimera is an organism with two or more sets of DNA, with every cell having one of the sets. Is it possible and common for the two or more sets to be present in the cells of a sin
If there are no neurons providing a stimulus for more firing (as in a dish of disembodied rat neurons), Question: why don't they simply cease firing after the synchronized burst completes?
I've recently seen the term synthetic biology being used to describe research involving genetic modification of organisms.
"Researchers believe that people may be able to get the virus if they touch something that has been contaminated with rodent urine, droppings, or saliva, and then touch their nose or mouth."
Mammals have lungs, so do marine mammals. Nevertheless some marine mammals seem to die rather quickly when they strand on a beach.As they have lungs and can breath while on land, why do they die so q
A World Health Organization Report of 2008 stated that ‘A girl born today can expect to live for more than 80 years if she is born in some countries - but less than 45 years if she is born in
I am no biologist, but as a physicist, a spontaneous mutation (seen as a chemical transformation) should lower the energy of the system, at least locally. So I wonder if any research has been done a
At the end of 2009, an estimated 20,171 people were living with a HIV diagnosis in Australia. From the start of the epidemic until the end of 2009, there had been 29,395 diagnoses of HIV and 10,446
I've heard that it takes some time for pets(cats/dogs) to adjust to a different dry feed, where the new feed has to be mixed with the old one, slowly replacing the old one.
My understanding and experience is that during the night photoreceptors are less tightly coupled to the retinal pigment epithelium.
As we have heard in the summaries of the human ENCODE project, 80 per cent of junk DNA appears to have an essential function. Many fish have a genome with only one tenth the size of a usual vertebra
I've been reading a bit about "junk DNA" and how much of our genome consists of this "non coding DNA" in comparison to "coding DNA".I'm just an interested layperson but I thought all combinations of
The DNA copying enzymes have a hard time working to the end of a chromosome. For circular chromosomes this is not a problem, since there is not a sharp 'end'.
It is well known that the first DNA polymerase, Taq, is quite error prone. Newer generation commercial enzymes that have either been isolated from different thermophile species or have been improved
In my understanding, the evolutional function of berries is to be eaten and pood out somewhere else, so that the seeds of the plant spread.
I find that people generally distinguish between love and infatuation.
I heard there are some common substances in tea and coffee, do they cause addiction?
I went to give blood the other day, and they take an "iron" measurement prior to actually drawing the blood. My level was 16.4 -- but what specific type of iron were they measuring?
Each of these types below contains a DNA mutation.