Gene expression

... neighboring cells) results in birth defects. As to the other aspect of your question - genetic regulation of organism's size: Imagine this: Gene1 = produces growth hormone Gene 1 allele A (which is a variant of this gene) - can make 100 units of hormone per hour. Gene 1 allele B - can make ...

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Can anyone give a relatively general account on how DNA and gene expression determine an organism's physical shape, i.e., size, skeletal structure, body shape, etc. I would ...

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my answer would be probably gene expression profiling and differentiation assay (if there is any)

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... cDNA for the standard curve will result in knowing the conc. of the gene of interest. Tzua, any paper dealing with the expression level of a certain gene using RT-qPCR would be suffice I guess.

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... does this resulting value mean? The higher the value, the higher the expression ? In regard to formulating this, can I say something like "The expression was observed to be X copies of the gene of interest mRNA / copy of reference gene mRNA" ? Finally if I want to ...

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