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organic molecules some organic molecules in life are carbohydrates and lipids agrave c h and o proteins agrave c h o n amp sometimes s nucleic acids
metabolic processes living things are complex and yet the cell is the basic unit of life new cells result of mitosis cell division dna controls all
members belonging to the scientific community fear the misuse of this therapy leading to dangerous consequences people may try to insert the
a genetic trait which is considered to be harmful in the present day might prove to be beneficial in future for example by removing the trait for
a foreign dna has to target a precise chromosomal site and integrate with the host dna are the methods of gene therapy strong enough to produce
debate over ethics of using gene therapy for treating human beings started since the discovery of recombinant dna technology the mere fact that it
non-viral vectors viral vectors are highly efficient but when it comes to large scale production at the commercial level non-viral serve as a
viral vectors there are a large number of viral vectors available which can transfer the desired sequence properly into the host examples of the
the ultimate aim of somatic gene therapy is to alter the genetic material of living cells which involves transfer of dna genetic material is
germ line gene therapy - this approach either targets to correct the totipotent cells within human conceptus or stimulate the genetic modifications
all the cells present in the body contain genes and an approach targeted to modulate the expression of genes is known as gene therapy this novel
how does the metachronal waves form in the ciliary row of protozoa explain the cilia beating mechanism associates with
gre stands for the glucocorticoid response element the binding site in a promoter to which the activated glucocorticoid receptor can be bind the
heteroduplex dna is generated by the base pairing between complementary single strands derived from the different parental duplex molecules
heterochromatin compact gene-poor areas of a genome which are enriched in the simple sequence repeats as it may be impossible to clone
homologous recombination is the exchange of the sequence between two associated but different dna or rna molecules with the result that a new
homology indicates similarity between the two different nucleotide or the amino acid sequences generally with potential evolutionary importance it
human genome initiative is the collective name for number of projects begun in 1986 by department of energy doe to 1 create an ordered set of
hybridization is the reaction by which pairing of the complementary strands of nucleic acid happens dna is usually double-stranded and when these
hybridoma is the clone of plasmacytoma cells which secrete a monoclonal antibody commonly produced by the fusion of peripheral or splenic plasma
hydrophilicity plot is a computer plot which checks the relative summed hyrophobicity or hydrophilicity of adjacent amino acid sidechains usually
informatics is the study of the application of computer and statistical techniques to the management of information in the genome projects
initiation codon is the codon at which the translation of a polypeptide chain is initiated this is generally the first aug triplet in the mrna
intergenic amongs the two genes for example intergenic dna is the dna found amongs two genes the term is frequently used to mean non-functional dna
the introns are the portions of genomic dna which are transcribed and hence present in the primary transcript but are then spliced out later they