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... 'evolution' never happened. I did a link to Sanfords book 'Genetic entropy'. The onus of proof is on the person that makes the claim. Science has lots of evidence for evolution but there is no evidence for any deity. To say that "The fact we are having this conversation right now proves 'evolution' ...

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Are you going to phenotype the plants already in F1? You can always grow lots of plants and pick several of them for further work. By that you will be always sure you will have enough plants for your work.

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... about your biological parents' background). The genes and their expression is often a very complicated process involving many regulation steps and lots of interaction with other genes, so the existence of a bad allele does not necessarily mean you ever get the disease (for example, many genes may ...

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I have been trying very very hard to clone the ligase 6 gene in Arabidopsis overexpress it. However, it has been proving very difficult due to the high amount of splicing intermediates. I have so far used varying primers on the cDNA of arabidopsis in order to get some fragments that I could then lig...

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... it only stem cells that differentiate or are there other types of unspecialised cells? 4. When would a cell differentiate? Surely if someone loses lots of liver cells for example mitosis will replicate them rather than new ones through differnentiation?

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