While traditional selective breeding involved purely observational methods (selecting only plants or animals with superior phenotypic traits, such as size or strength, for breeding), modern selective breeding relies heavily on molecular biology techniq...
I have a broad background in medicine, biology, and other disciplines and understand phylogenic trees and their branches… So imagine how amazed I was when FTDNA announced that my mtDNA Haplogroup was …. R2’JT… I called them only to be treated like a child with ‘our analysis is ...
et al. An intronic SNP in a RUNX1 binding site of SLC22A4, encoding an organic cation transporter, is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Nature Genet. 35, 341–348 (2003). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Peltekova, V. D. et al. Functional variants of OCTN cation transporter genes are ...
Whole-genome SNP analysisWhile human nutrigenomics research and efforts for targeted nutritional interventions intensified over the past few years, there are fundamental lessons to be learned from Drosophila and evolutionary biology for human nutrient-gene interactions. With the advent of inexpensive whole ...
ARMS PCR is mostly used in low throughput settings, because you can only detect one SNP at a time in one sample aliquot, and because running a gel for every PCR reaction is time consuming. It is, however, the method of choice for the diagnosis of the blood disorders thalassemia – which...
Pseudomonas syringae is one of the most common plant pathogens that infect the phyllosphere. P. syringae can live on the plant surface as an epiphyte. To cause disease, it enters the plant, through wounds or natural openings such as stomata, and multiplies within the apoplast. P. syringae is...
Pseudomonas syringae is one of the most common plant pathogens that infect the phyllosphere. P. syringae can live on the plant surface as an epiphyte. To cause disease, it enters the plant, through wounds or natural openings such as stomata, and multiplies within the apoplast. P. syringae is...
In another Tweet, Sharron stated, “I’m not really religious but I’m not really sure messing with biology is very healthy in the long term. Evolution is pretty good at getting it right.” There you have it folks; Sharron Davies does not believe in mucking about with biology (and it ...
What is a test cross? What is the role of statistics in biology? Which techniques are used in RFLP Analysis and how exactly SNP are used? What are the more accurate sampling techniques used in ecology? What is a haplotype? What influences the analysis of nutrient content in plants? What ...
What is an allele that is present but unexpressed? How are allele frequencies related to gene pools? What is allele phasing? Define dominant allele in biology When does mutation have the most impact on allele frequency? What is the difference between a dominant allele and a recessive allele?