Questions tagged [genetics]
Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics.
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Post-Translational Modification in insulin production
When searching "How is insulin produced commercially" on Google, most results simply say something along the lines of "The insulin gene is inserted into a bacteria, which then express ...
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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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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 ...
