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Variant

variant

Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Origin: Cf. F. Variante. (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; a new strain of microorganisms.


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Re: HELP ME PLEASEEE - DNA Sequences

... tells them to cook, and the mRNA is the recipe. The ingredients of theses ribosomes are amino acids, there are 20 amino acids in all life. And the variant combination of the amino acids creates the infinite number of proteins that make up life. There is a basic dictionary for the amino acid and ...

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by bekbaev
Wed May 13, 2009 2:54 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: HELP ME PLEASEEE - DNA Sequences
Replies: 1
Views: 999

Future Human Evolution

... of a form of genetic modification described in David Weber's Honor Harrington sci-fi series. The idea was to use a virus (in the book, it's a variant of the common cold) to alter the genome of an entire population. The virus inserts its DNA into the the host as per virus SOP, and the modified ...

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by alextemplet
Wed May 06, 2009 1:27 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5603

Natural selection is proven wrong

... function that is probably described in the research article but is not mentioned in the news article. Some alleles of these genes (an allele is a variant of a gene - most genes have many variants in a population, but any one person can have at most two alleles for any gene, one from the mother ...

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by wbla3335
Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16284

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms

... how genotyping them would work. also why can you get a blot on gel after digestion with an enzyme like EcoR1 that shows that an individual has the variant or diseased DNA without that person actually having it? thanks, Alex

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by alexandertg6
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:24 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Restriction fragment length polymorphisms
Replies: 1
Views: 252

Gene giving rise to Protein

... is not always true for eucaryotic genes. For example, a single a-tropomyosin gene can produces multiple distinct mRNAs which then give rise to variant (but related) proteins. How does this occur? PLease can anyone answer this question?

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by Lurrena
Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:38 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Gene giving rise to Protein
Replies: 2
Views: 349
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