How many types of mRNA are transcribed from the lac operon? Which RNA base pairs with the adenine in DNA? What are the nucleotides involved in DNA synthesis? How many tRNA types are in a human cell? What nucleotide is substituted for uracil in mRNA?
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The DNA strand in E. coli contains about 4 million base pairs, and these base pairs are organized into about 1,000 genes. A gene is simply a template for a protein, and often these proteins are enzymes. An enzyme is a protein that speeds up a particular chemical reaction. For example,...
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Fig. 1: Watson–Crick base pairs and natural variations thereof. Once the S-2L’s genome was sequenced, the presence of a gene homologous to an adenylosuccinate synthetase (purA) was noted, raising the possibility that the phage encodes in its genome the enzymes of the biosynthesis pathway of...
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we show that m6A pairs with uridine with the methylamino group in theanticonformation to form a Watson-Crick base pair that transiently exchanges on the millisecond timescale with a singly hydrogen-bonded low-populated (1%) mismatch-like conformation in which the methylamino group issyn. This abil...
Genome-wide patterns of microhabitat-driven divergence in the alpine dwarf shrub Salix herbacea L. In: On The Big Challenges of a Small Shrub: Ecological Genetics of Salix herbacea L. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis; 2015 [26] Ravinet M, et al. Interpreting the genomic ...
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