Questions tagged [genetics]
Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics.
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What backbone to use for Helper dependent adenovirus (HDAd)
I have been trying to design a plasmid for a helper dependent adenovirus but while looking i wasn't able to see a backbone specifically for HDAds so I was wondering if a general adenovirus backbone ...
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How to model the relationship between environments based on environmental covariates in a genomic prediction context
I have a dataset with different wheat lines in multiple environments. For each line various traits are measured (e.g. grain yield). I am trying to set up various genomic prediction models (linear ...
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Is it possible to improve metabolic rate through quorum sensing?
I am building a microbial fuel cell unit using mint plant and soil microbes. My goal is to power a LED light using the electricity but the electrify that microbes are so little so I am thinking of ...
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can we change the composition and structure of myelin for more speed [closed]
Coud we change the composition and structure of lyelin for more speed?
for example to cure multiple sclerosis or to increase reflexes see to increase the rate of nerve conduction of the optic nerve ?
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How to understand restriction mapping a quarter of a century later?
Today, biology is virtually all based on massively parallel sequencing, long-strand sequencing, and metagenomic; looking back at old restriction mapping is not straightforward (at least for me).
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Mechanism of random assortment of chromosomes
How does the random assortment of chromosomes during meiosis occur?
I am a mathematician, not a biologist, and I am surprised that it is difficult to find an answer to this question online (AI ...
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About tomatoes pigments, why red tomatoes rather than yellow ones
How the first tomatoes (yellow) that arrived in Europe turned from yellow to red ?
I know the yellow pigment is xantophylle and the red one is lycopene, but my question is, was it an adaptation of the ...
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What has caused my oxeye daisies to mutate?
Some oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) in my garden are showing strange mutations. I have a few oxeye daisy plants around my garden in different areas, but only one plant's flowers are showing ...
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Can phenotype change without change in genotype?
If a person with lighter skin is to live in areas close to the equator for a long amount of time, their skin would get darker, and hence their phenotype gets 'altered'.
If I'm to look at their gene ...
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What is a reference strain in DNA-DNA hybridization DNA groups?
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DNA groups identified:
All intra-group relatedness values are shown in
Table I.
By means of reference strains, most of the DNA groups could be identified as groups described by Bouvet & ...
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How would you find out which gene is causing a specific phenotype in Drosophila through crosses only?
I'd recently attended an interview and was asked a question I've been trying to get to the bottom of. The question was that there is a mutation in which some smaller drosophila are only attracted to ...
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identification of most Active gene/protein isoform
I am investigating a gene, and on ensemble, it has multiple variants. How can i know which gene or protein isoform is most active?
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Limma - Voom function for microarray data
I am wondering if anyone can have a look at the voom plot I got below and let me know if this is indicative of an issue with my design?
I understand that it should be more of a J-shape rather than a ...
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Are there any completely, or 'true', Mendelian traits that do not display any polygeny at all?
Recently, I learned about polygenic traits and it got me wondering, are there any truly Mendelian traits where the trait displayed exists in a total binary?
I have looked at some questions on the ...
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How to separate two plasmids from E coli with the same backbone?
I'm using transformation-associated recombination (TAR) in yeast to capture a biosynthetic gene cluster (32 kb) by transforming gDNA and a capture vector (11 kb) with homology arms. I identified a ...
