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Cut

in molecular biology, a hydrolytic cleavage of two opposing phosphodiester bonds in a double-stranded nucleic acid.

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Fractals in Biology

... am having a bit of a difficult time finding actual journal articles on the study. Does anyone have any suggestions? Mandelbrot's book just doesn't cut it.

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by musicman4727
Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:40 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fractals in Biology
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Views: 43

How can i asses the parasie loading of littorina littoria?

If it's in snails, can't you simply use many of them and cut few of them at each time point?

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by JackBean
Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:40 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: How can i asses the parasie loading of littorina littoria?
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Views: 374

DNA

I think this is a case where winding the DNA onto histones protects it from the nuclease, so the DNA is cut only in regions between the histones. If the same length of DNA is wound around each histone and every DNA segment between histones gets cut, the fragments after inter-histone ...

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by jonmoulton
Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:32 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: DNA
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DNA

... micrococcal nuclease within the nucleus and studying it by SDS-PAGE.The results we had, showed several bands around 6 (nucleosomes that were cut by the nuclease). I do not really know how to interpret the results caz I do not understand what they mean by periodicity (this is supposed to analise ...

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by simina
Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:41 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: DNA
Replies: 8
Views: 2512

MOLECULAR CLONING

... or dephosphorylate any of the two? As far as I understand, it is not necessary to dephosphorylate my double-digested open vector as long as it was cut with two different enzymes. Thus, the 5'-end of my vector has a phosphate. But still, should I phosphorylate my insert, since its 5'-end does not ...

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by kk
Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: MOLECULAR CLONING
Replies: 7
Views: 1512
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