Much recent research has focused on the ratio of the lengths of the second to fourth manual digits (2D:4D) as a predictor of the degree of expression of sexually dimorphic and other sex-hormone-mediated traits. However, published findings are often contradictory or subject to various methodologic...
These chromosomes are made up of hundreds of individual alleles, which are inherited from parents and are expressed as either dominant or recessive traits. Each allele or gene is responsible for a specific single part of the phenotype in these simplified terms. ...
Although metazoan development is conceived as resulting from gene regulatory networks (GRNs) controlled by Hox genes, a better analogy is computer architecture: i.e., a task accomplished in sequential steps linked to an external referent that "counts" each step. A developmental "step" equals the...
What are two examples of discoveries in genetics (besides epigenetics) that have led to the realization that genetic mapping is not as simple as genes being linked or not? What are some genetic mutations that give a distinct advantage in humans? Which is a b...
Modulating Hox gene functions during animal body patterning. Nat. Rev. Genet. 6, 893–904 (2005). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Goto, T., Macdonald, P. & Maniatis, T. Early and late periodic patterns of even skipped expression are controlled by distinct regulatory elements that ...
What DNA repair genes cause cancer? What are Hox genes? What is a nonenveloped DNA virus? Who discovered DNA microarrays? Which field of biology focuses on heredity and DNA? What does a DNA sequencer do? What do scientists hope to accomplish using recombinant DNA? What is the largest DNA ...
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Consider, for example, the role of Hox genes:Hox genes act at many levels within developmental gene hierarchies: at the ‘executive’ level they regulate genes that in turn regulate large networks of other genes (like the gene pathway that forms an appendage). They also directly regulate what...
PREs were first discovered in flies, in which they can mediate epigenetic memory of both silent and active states of their associated genes. Epigenetic memory has not yet been tested for mammalian PREs. Silent and activated states are each ensured by several self-reinforcing molecular mechanisms ...
What are Hox genes? Give an example of how Hox gene expression controls development. How do epigenetic influences change how the DNA strand is read? Provide at least two specific examples. How can enhancers influence the transcription of genes that are really far away on the same ...