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Dictionary » C » Carrier CarrierDefinition noun, plural: carriers (general)
(immunology)
(genetics) (2) An organism possessing a recessive gene for a trait, hence, not expressing the trait. (chemistry)
(genetics) A genetic carrier pertains to an organism carrying an unexpressed defective gene for a recessive trait but when mated with another carrier can produce a homozygous offspring that expresses the recessive trait.
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Results from our forumwhat is the chemical composition of a carrier protein and hopls help me!! what is the chemical composition of a carrier protein and how does this facilitates its function?
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Pedigree chart question... a little advice/help. I have to do a pedigree chart for 101 (due tonight), and its just for colorblindness. My problem is, I have a colorblind carrier female mating with a normal vision male, and from them there are two offspring (male and a female). When I do the Punnet squares for this, I ...
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Genomic Imprinting In Humans (and classical genetics)... gene expression, but my question is, what is the difference between it and normal expression? eg//ALBINISM AA-Normal pigmentation Aa-Carrier but no albino phenotype aa-Albinism In genomic imprinting, it says that one allele is masked by the other one, but isn't that the same as the ...
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Re: GenesSickle-cell disease is a good example of pleiotrophy, the carrier of this recessive trait will have a phenotype of lets say Ss but they do not have Sickle-cell symptoms like the SS phenotype. However even in the Ss type some sickle-cells are created this ...
See entire post Anybody knows how stable is ssDNA??... It's the product from degenerated PCR so i guess it's ssDNA. I labeled the probe with DIG, keep in 50%formamide and hybridization buffer with carrier DNA. I was so stupid that I left it overnight at my bench. Anybody has and information about how stable is ssDN at room temperature? especially ...
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