“Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) is defined as the absence of one normal parental allele or gene (or part of the chromosome) in an organism which usually results in cancer.“ Like […]
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DNA supercoiling is a process to make DNA fit inside the cell nucleus and regulates transcriptional activities. But do you know it performs 5 other functions for a cell too?
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“Molecular phylogeny is a science to construct a phylogenetic tree by using the nucleic acid sequence information.” Phylogeny, a branch of genetics and/or evolutionary science, has a specialization in representing
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Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) gene forms the sonic hedgehog protein having a pivotal function in embryonic morphogenesis. Yesterday night I was watching a TV show on Sony BBC earth (the copyright
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“Maternal cell contamination is defined as the presence of maternal cells in a fetal sample such as amniotic fluid or chorionic villi. It creates preanalytical problems during testing.” Prenatal genetic
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“A sequence when read from 5’ to 3’ and 3’ to 5’ direction on two antiparallel strands shows sequence similarity is said as the palindromic DNA sequence.” Our genome, in
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