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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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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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What is important in the Luria-Latarjet effect?
In the seminal paper
Luria, S.E. and Latarjet, R. (1964) “Ultraviolet irradiation of
bacteriophage during intracellular growth”. Proceedings of the
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Why do we choose to use agar instead of agarose in various microbial applications?
When performing gel-electrophoresis we always use agarose. Is there a reason we can't perform it using Agar?
And in microbial culture Agar is commonly used as solidifying agent, could this be replaced ...
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What's the term for "Amino acid regulating the expression of components used to synthesize it"?
In the tryptophan operon wikipedia page, it says under the Attenuation title:
A similar attenuation mechanism regulates the synthesis of histidine, phenylalanine and threonine.
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Can features of modified plasmids be divided into prokaryotic features and eukaryotic features?
Here's what I understand and please correct me if I am wrong:
Plasmids modified for gene therapy or genetic engineering should contain factors for certain functions in prokaryotic cells. For example, ...
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Would viral diversity result in a change in the effectiveness of CRISPR systems in a population of bacteria, within a closed system?
I have here my hypothesis, does this make scientific sense? Assume this situation is occurring in a closed environment with only bacteria and bacteriophages.
The effectiveness of CRISPR/Cas9, being an ...
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When a dog sniffs up organic material that contains DNA, is it possible his genome incorporates it? [closed]
I'm not kidding. Was just watching my German Shepherd sniffing away at a new Amazon box.
...realized she sniffs vast array of DNA from organic material when on a walk: millions of mammalian, plant, ...
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Do microorganisms have complex social behaviors like dominance hierarchies, just as "higher animals" do?
I used to believe that dominance hierarchy (a.k.a. pecking order) exists in higher order animals and is associated with complex social behavior. See the wikipedia definition of dominance hierarchy and ...
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Do bacteria duplicate the copied virus DNA to put into a Cas9 protein when fighting the virus off again?
When bacteria insert a part of invading virus DNA into its own genetic sequence, on the 2nd invasion does it duplicate that copied DNA again from wherever the bacteria placed it and put it into a Cas9 ...
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What is targeted gene disruption?
I am a bit confused about what targeted gene disruption means. I was reading this article in which they compare the Pyrococcus Furiosus genome with a genetically tractable strain P. Furiosus variant ...
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What is the relationship between a "main" strain genome and its variant genome in archaea?
I am going to analyze DNA sequencing data in order to try to extrapolate some information about the survival strategy of Pyrococcus Furiosus to gamma irradiation, as maybe you already know from all ...
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How long would you expect a designed plasmid to remain in a population of E. coli after transformation?
When transforming E. coli with a genetically-modified plasmid, how quickly/often is this plasmid "lost" because of mutation, or horizontal-transfer, or "dilution" over reproduction ...
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Can Euchromatin convert into Heterochromatin?
I know that Heterochromatin can convert into Euchromatin but is the reverse possible? If yes, then How?
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How do mutations of viruses lead to drug resistance?
For instance, after starting zidovudine monotherapy against HIV, resistance develops against the drug because of a point mutation in the RNA transcriptase enzyme to which the drug binds.
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