A. These molecules are tiny helpers that control gene activity. Their research showed, microRNAs are very important for the growth and health of all things, including humans!What's exciting is that the human genome(基因组), which is complete set of genes, has over a thousand different microRN...
What makes us who we are This question has two different answers. One is the environment that surrounds us when we grow up and the other is our genes(基因). In English this is called the “nature vs nurture debate(辩论)”. Nature means genes and nurture means environment including the pe...
(a) What is a DNA microarray? (b) How it can characterize thousands of genes simultaneously? (c) Give an example of its use. The RNA is synthesized on a DNA template in a process called? DNA sequences that are very similar in related species or genes are called __...
Considering the central role that genes play in the understanding of biology, it is surprising that no single, simple definition of a gene exists. This is partly because genes are under multiple evolutionary constraints, and partly because the concept of a gene has both structural and functional ...
Four distinct types are recognized among introns, generally defined as sequences within genes that are subsequently excised from the corresponding RNA transcripts [1,2]. These are the so-called group I and group II self-splicing introns, transfer RNA introns and spliceosomal introns. Spliceosomal ...
What type of gene transfer is between members of the same species? What are two similar genes that are found in the same species called? These genes arise from duplication and carry out different functions within a cell. How can similar types of genetic mutatio...
They found mutations in 83% of patients; the other 17% presumably have mutations not detectable by current techniques or in different genes. There were mutations in 10 different ichthyosis genes, mostly a gene called TGM1. To some extent different genotypes corresponded to different phenotypes. ...
The distribution of IS 200 in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium genomes. The IS200 insertions in intergenic regions with copies numbered from IS200 _1 to IS200 _27 are displayed on the right. IS200 causing truncations of genes are labeled on the affecting nodes with the gene symbols. ...
As an important transcription factor, p53 is responsible for regulating the expression of genes related to proliferation, DNA repair, senescence and cell death [62, 63]. p53 also interacts with autophagy via multiple pathways in the context of tumor. Autophagy suppressed p53 by reducing oxidative ...
Depending on the nature of the problem being optimized, the genetic algorithm (GA) supports two different gene representations: binary, and decimal. The binary GA has only two values for its genes, which are 0 and 1. This is easier to manage as its gene values are limited compared to the...