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Replacement

replacement

1. The act of replacing.

2. (Science: chemistry) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.


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Mitochondrial Gene Replacement

Researchers have figured out a potential way to prevent mitochondrial DNA related diseases by trading out healthy mitochondria for the mutated mitochondria. Apparently there are no side effects. Read more

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by jyaron
Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:01 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Mitochondrial Gene Replacement
Replies: 0
Views: 56

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... domain from protists, fungi, plants and animals. They ingest plasmids and are infected by viruses. Thus they have insertions, deletions and replacement of their DNA. Some of them revert back and are called revertants. SO because they change in their genetic material and in their phenotype ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2168

multiple choice question.

... in primates D. Transitions and transversions only occur in the nuclear genome E. The silent substitution rate is 4 to 6 times lower than the replacement rate I am not sure about this. I have read that transition occurs more often than transversions.

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by marikas
Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:35 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: multiple choice question.
Replies: 1
Views: 852

Growing human organs?

... will learn how to do it. It would be nice to live 200, 300 or even more hundreds of years:)))) It could very much be possible with the organ replacement. Well, a guy can fantasize, can't he:)

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by Astral100
Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:51 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Growing human organs?
Replies: 6
Views: 1265

Re: Bible vs Darwin

... test these hypotheses. My reference to abandoning reason involves making the leap of faith required to believe in supernatural entities as a replacement for acknowledging and accepting our ignorance. My leap of faith involves believing that nature is all there is. I suspect we will all die ...

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by seahorse24
Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:24 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
Replies: 293
Views: 30230
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