“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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EMSA stands for Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay often known as gel shift assay is a technique to study the nucleic acid and protein interaction. The present technique is used ‘in
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“DNA footprinting studies the DNA sequence protein interaction thereby transcriptional activities in vitro within or outside the cell.“ Transcription is a complex biological process whose final product is obviously a
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