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| Dominate Gene | 1/15/2009 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Not sure you can answer this, but is it true when dark & light genes mix- the father's gene is more ...
A: There is no dependence of dominance on father or mother. Dominance is dependent on the gene itself ...
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| Statistics Minor | 1/9/2009 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: I am currently seeking a degree in Biomedical Sciences. I was thinking of adding a Statistics ...
A: I am not highly knowledgeable about the field. But with my experience of working in computational ...
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| Heterozygocity | 3/4/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: Could you please explain heterozygocity and gene diversity to me in simple terms? Keeping it simple ...
A: Matt. Heterozygosity can be a tricky concept. I'm not sure I can couch this the religious terms ...
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| genetics | 2/1/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: i am doing an research about about the molecular detail of the gene control mechanism.do you maybe ...
A: Sara, Thanks for the question. If you are a university student, I would suggest accessing the ...
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| How can I grow taller? | 1/30/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: I'm a young man,I live in Cameroon(Africa),will be 21 in May,I'm like 1.83m(like 6ft) tall.My dad ...
A: Bill. At 6 feet tall you're already above average. Height is determined by two factors: genes and ...
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| How does this happen... | 1/25/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: I'm wondering how I ended up a red head? My mother is middle eastern (dark hair/eyes), and my ...
A: Red hair is most common in the British Isles, with a full 13% of the Scottish population possessing ...
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| How does this happen... | 1/24/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: I'm wondering how I ended up a red head? My mother is middle eastern (dark hair/eyes), and my ...
A: The highest frequency for red hair and the gene for red hair is found in western and northern ...
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| What will our baby look like? | 1/21/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: I'm sure you get this question a lot, but when combining my own genetics with my husbands, what is ...
A: Emily! It's normal to wonder what your children may look like, but the specifics can get quite a ...
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| Blood Type | 1/18/2008 | Sophia Jane Carter |
Q: I have a question and I really need help. My mom is O+ and my father was O- and I am A+. Can you ...
A: Rhonda, Thanks for your question. First, a little explanation for blood types. Blood types are ...
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| genetic | 10/2/2007 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: what is tRNA ?
A: tRNA stands for transfer RNA. It is one of the three type of RNA present in the living cells [rRNA, ...
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| bsc degree | 6/28/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: my % is 77 tell me which one of bsc biotech or bsc bioinformatics is better?
A: tamanna, doing bsc biotech or bioinfo or for that matter bsc chem or biochem is all your choice. ...
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| vectors | 5/18/2007 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Why do researchers need more than one type of vector to produce recombinant DNA? What is the ...
A: I can only give a basic non-extensive reply for this query. rDNA technology has advanced a lot that ...
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| Genetic/Ethnic Make-up | 4/18/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: If a mother is 100% Mexican and a father is 100% African American, is the ethnicity of the child ...
A: the ethinicity of the (to be born) child cannot be determined just like this ! human genetics is ...
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| Genetics...5 | 3/14/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: With genetic testing that can now be performed prior to birth determining certain genetic ...
A: yes its not far away. lot of advancements have been made in the field of genetic testing and hence ...
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| Genetics...3 | 3/14/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: If some scientist believe that human behavior is conditioned, then would it be fair to say that ...
A: i cant agree more ! intelligence is learned and not somethignn you are born with (atleast ...
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| Genetics | 3/14/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: Are characteristics such as personality or particular interest and talents, able to be passed to an ...
A: anyways here we go.. 1)charecteristics like personality or interest and talents cannot be passed to ...
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| promoters | 3/5/2007 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: I am interested knowing about the mechanism of action of promoters for mRNA synthesis, and in fact I ...
A: Promoter is a small strech of DNA sequence, located just before the Gene or some times forming also ...
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| geneticengineering | 2/15/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: what is a cell that has been specialized to become a specific type of cell called?
A: uh...well...it goes like this... ill explain with the help of an example... stem cells in teh bone ...
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| Antibiotic genetics | 1/24/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: I am flattered that you asked if this is a Master's project! It is actually not required as part of ...
A: im not so sure as to wat a community college is...(in this part of the world ...guess that system is ...
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| bioinformatics | 1/13/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: would you tell me what is bioinfomatics.
A: Asif, Bioinformatics is the use of computational science to solve biologicall problems. it is an ...
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| molecular biology | 1/5/2007 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: sir i would like to know recent trend in molecular therapeutics
A: molecular therapeutics is a vast area of life science. every single day there are new research ...
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| forensic science | 12/4/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: my name is Ayana and I am working on my senior exit project, which is a requirement to graduate, and ...
A: looks like you are working on a really interesting area ! it is indeed possible to use bio tools and ...
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| Canis rufus floridanus -- My Favorite Wolf is extinct -- Any hope of bringing it back? | 12/1/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Canis-rufus-floridanus is a black-coated red wolf. It is my favorite wolf. I want it back. Is there ...
A: First of all I must say that I am not competent to provide you with answer for this. But ...
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| DNA analysis | 11/26/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: I need to edit my DNA after sequencing, is there any program to do that? Thank you.
A: First of all, I didnt understand what you mean by editing. I suppose you want to compare it with a ...
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| Bioinformatics | 11/18/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Perhpas you could shade somelight on the blast results. I know that you base your choice of gi ...
A: If the two sequences that you have taken belong to the same protein, then you should expect both of ...
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| swiss model | 11/12/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: I am going to generate a model for a protein using swiss model(pdb viewer program). But I think this ...
A: well...its like there is no reason to develop a model if the strucutre is already in protein data ...
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| introduce some books | 10/30/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: Would you be willing to introduce me some top and new books in bioinformatic field specially which ...
A: For starters you can go through these....once you are comfortable with basic concepts you can go ...
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| RNA secondary structure | 10/25/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: I have a question about secondary structure prediction programs. In fact I am going to compare ...
A: I am unable to get your problem. I mean 'stdin' file what you have mentioned is very vague. ...
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| Race determinatiuon | 10/11/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: What experts should I ask about a question like this? Can a white male determine if he has any ...
A: well.....i guess u wanted to ask some thing about having black ancestors..... its like, 99% of dna ...
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| number of individuals | 10/5/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: Anything that restricts the number of individuals living in a population is what? a limiting ...
A: Limiting factors- Organism’s need resources. They can’t grow or will stop growing or reproducing if ...
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| scientists | 10/5/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: List at least four skills that scientists commonly use
A: The term scientists is way too broad to give/list four skills. If you consider a bioinformatics ...
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| primer | 10/4/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: ------------------------- Dear Prasanth, thank you very much for your kind answer. I have some ...
A: 1. It impossible to get the PCR going with an annealing temperature of 28-30 degrees. You can not ...
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| Bioinformatics/Biotechnology | 9/26/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Would a MSc in Bioinformatics be better than an Msc in Biotechnology? Which one has better ...
A: Please Note: My answer below is purely my personal view. I think MSc in Biotechnology would be ...
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| primer | 9/24/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: Hello I desined some 13 mer aAT rich primers that for example one of them is: gtcaaaataaaaa, for ...
A: the question you have posted is kind of .....outside my domain of expertise. however, I forwarded ...
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| coiled coil prediction | 8/31/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: Hello. I have a problem to predict coiled coil sequence in a protein. this protein act as a membrane ...
A: I cannot help with MacStripe 2.0 as we do not have MAC system. But you can use the online program ...
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| prions | 7/28/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: I presume prions infect people when ingested. Why are they not just broken down in to their ...
A: I apologize for the delayed response. youve got an interesting question there ! you do have a valid ...
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| bioinformatics | 7/26/2006 | Sridhar Acharya |
Q: give me a definition of bioinformatics ! n also plz list the areas it concerns mainly !
A: You can ofcourse get good definitions for bioinformatics from various authentic bioinformatics ...
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| genetics | 7/8/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: I( know that genetics is where most of where are hieght comes from but is there any kind of diet to ...
A: hey ! well yea ...genetics (rather...the persons genes) determine the phenotypic charecteristics ...
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| DRUG TESTING | 7/7/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: I am a mystery novelist. I have created a fictional cancer drug under test. Insiders stand to profit ...
A: hey ! cool that you have an anti-cancer drug ! You know wat? I have been working on computer aided ...
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| Biotechnology | 6/11/2006 | Prasanth Subramani |
Q: ------------------------- I was satisfied with ur answer but i wanted to know that i m ready to ...
A: Well, after your bsc degree in biotech, you could pursue msc biotech or msc in any other specialized ...
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