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The concept of the term "genome" refers to: in 1920, “the haploid chromosome set, which, together with the pertinent protoplasm, specifies the material foundations of the species” (Lederberg et...
10 October 2018 8,141 6 View
Hi there I've a congenic strain of mice that exhibits a phenotype dependent on testis (lost following orchiectomy) and was wondering if i can assess the contribution of Testosterone or DHT using a...
10 October 2018 2,492 2 View
I crossed two lines of rice with contrasting leaf, culm and panicle traits. The F1 plants were almost halfway between the parents except for some quantitative heterosis. The F2 plants (currently...
09 September 2018 7,828 8 View
A couple seeking premarital genetic counseling: Male: heterozygous for ∆3.7 single gene deletion mutation (alpha thalassemia trait) Female: heterozygous for IVS II-1 G>A mutation (beta thalassemia...
12 August 2018 5,024 11 View
The objective is to calculate the genetic risk score, given the genotyping data, effective allele and effective size. Totally 1.5 million SNPs are included in the bfile.bim, and they all have...
08 August 2018 6,269 2 View
I have a few SALK lines but I am unsure about the position of the insert as well as the size of the insert. Please can anyone advice me on how to find this. I tried the SALK website but it doesn't...
08 August 2018 2,040 2 View
I want to check the role of a gene in rice fertility. One experiment is to count total pollen number per anther. But I am not successful in collecting the total pollens. Please suggest a possible...
08 August 2018 8,055 5 View
GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic...
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I am looking to validate the use of Nanopipettes by comparing the commonly expressed genes in HeLa and Neuron cells from data collected with Nanopipettes, with data from other methods. I am...
07 July 2018 6,845 1 View
There are three genetic mutations in the PKD-1, PKD-2, and PKD3 gene with similar phenotypical presentations. Given that PKD is one of the most common hereditary diseases in the United States, is...
16 May 2018 871 1 View
Why do we have different fingerprints? What is functional and scientific/biological significance? And what is the mechanism of this difference?
05 May 2018 3,602 2 View
Genetics seems to have generated immense knowledge about various eye diseases. These findings include gene mutations, their effects, pattern of inheritancel etc. So, Is this the time to have...
05 May 2018 2,226 10 View
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Hello everyone, Using CRISPR CAS9, I got homozygous +1 mutants for a rice gene. The CAS9 target lies in the middle of the gene. After mutation there is no stop codon in gene body. Only one in UTR...
05 May 2018 7,669 5 View
we know genetic is very complex plan in life. does this complex plan change with exercise? does resistance training induce genetic changes? how? does aerobic exercise induce genetic changes? how...
20 April 2018 8,895 8 View
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Does somatotype (different body type) has relation with genetic? I'm looking for the relation between somatotype (different body type) and genetic? Is there any relation between the somatotype...
04 April 2018 8,885 0 View
It is often assumed (see first post below) that human evolution relied on new mutations. Whilst not doubting that this process can occur, why is it necessary to assign it any major significance?...
04 April 2018 6,448 4 View
Limitation: 1) target specific gene: 2) do epigenetic modification:
18 March 2018 3,347 3 View
I've been told to make a selective pressure analysis of a hypervariable region of a viral genome. I have aligned my sequences, removed stop codons and I did some tests I've met in publications...
03 March 2018 9,251 8 View
Plant breeder use F2 ,F2:F3, NILs,RILs , DH in MAS but how these population are most suitable for it.
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