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Long wait is finally over ,The draft of the complete genome of the soya bean (Glycine max) has been released by the Joint Genome Institute and its associates at the International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Soya bean is pretty popular as crop plant for humans and animal food crop, which is rich in oil and protein.Another important property which makes Soya immensely useful is the its use as a feedstock for bio diesel — in which vegetable oil is chemically modified to power diesel …
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The genome sequence of woolly mammoth,an extinct species of Elephant is almost complete.This species of Elephant was adapted to live in cold and was found in Tundra region.Scientists from Penn state university have sequenced four billion DNA bases using next-generation DNA-sequencing instruments and a novel approach that reads ancient DNA highly efficiently.Stephan C. Schuster, Penn State professor of biochemistry and molecular biology believes that the genome size of this extinct mammoth might be similar to that of modern day’s African Elephant genome.
The sequencing of nuclear genome of extinct animal …
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Polymerase Chain Reaction is widely held as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century in molecular biology. Small amounts of the genetic material can now be amplified in rather simple manner,thanks to Kerry Mullis invention way back in 1983. Cell free DNA amplification can be performed in many different ways ,which can be used for identifying and manipulate DNA, detect infectious organisms, also helps in finding mutations, in human genes and numerous other tasks.
“lets you pick the piece of DNA you’re interested in and have as …
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Yesterday while loading my PCR samples suddenly a thought struck,why is it always we run our DNA samples in horizontal manner and not horizontal like one employed for proteins.I discussed this stuff with my friends and googled the net out of curiosity.Below is some of the information regarding electrophoresis of DNA and Proteins samples.
Background:
Gel electrophoresis is a technique used for the separation of deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, or protein molecules using an electric current applied to a gel matrix.In most cases the gel is a crosslinked polymer whose composition and …
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DNA stands for “Deoxy ribo Nucleic Acid” found in cells of all living things and some viruses.DNA is the genetic material which is transferred from one generation to another.DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe of life, since it contains all the instructions needed to construct other components of cells, such as proteins and RNA molecules.
2) DNA was first isolated in 1869 by Friedrich Miescher.
3) The structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick with ample support from Rosalind Franklin and …
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I came across some nice web pages….through stumble upon……..These web page will be very useful for the beginners…….. they show some very good animation of various pathways,structures of biomolecules,organization of cell and many more………Learning science this way will be helpful for many.
Here are the links for those:
www.johnkyrk.com
DNA FROM THE BEGINNING
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