498 Answered Questions for the topic genetics
Genetics Biology
05/22/19
What is the difference between karyotype and a genome?
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RNA Sequence amino acids
What is the RNA sequence of Valine Proline Alanine
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05/20/19
Can an adult without genetic lactase persistence still develop a tolerance for dairy foods?
While investigating the rise of adult lactose tolerance, I came across the news that China has been encouraging its citizens to drink more milk, even though most of the Asian population lacks the...
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05/19/19
What are the technical challenges that are limiting the use or adoption of genetically modified plants or crops?
For example, what's preventing scientists from using plants to produce high value materials at large quantities? Or create a single plant with a multitude of nutrients to prevent disease?
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05/18/19
Can human mRNA be translated in vitro by prokaryotes?
As the genetic code is universal, can mRNA from a human cell be correctly translated by a prokaryote in a in vitro translation system?
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05/17/19
How are new people created from the DNA of an aged person. i.e. Why are we young?
The question "why do we age" has been asked numerous times. But why are we young? The cells of the adult human being are an age (time>0), but how can old cells create new cells that are younger...
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Genetics
05/15/19
How many total, non-unique alleles are there for each gene in a population of 400 humans?
It is using the hardy-Weinberg theorem
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05/15/19
Why is an HIV infection considered "incurable"?
My biology teacher told me that if one caught HIV, they cannot be cured because it was near to impossible to be completely virus-free. She said this was because HIV keeps on changing its...
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Genetics Reproduction
05/14/19
Could a sperm be altered to contain a female's genetics?
Currently (to my knowledge), for a female same-sex couple to conceive a child and for both women to be involved, one would donate an egg, the other actually gives birth, and the sperm is donated by...
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Genetics Biology
05/14/19
Why we can not consider Dolly the sheep as a true clone?
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05/14/19
Is the function of adjacent genes correlated?
Do genes that occupy a similar locus on the genome have correlated function, specifically in human beings? It is my understanding that adjacent genes are inherited together, and so location plays a...
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Genetics Biology
05/14/19
What, exactly, is aging? and why does it happen?
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05/14/19
How many gigabases of DNA are there on earth?
The human genome is about 770 MB, the _C. elegans_ genome is about 100 MB, the yeast _S. cerevisiae_ is about 12 MB. Different other genomes have been sequenced: how many GB of genomic DNA we have...
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Genetics Probability
05/12/19
Probability of Inheritance
If you have a 3/4 chance of NOT inheriting the disease, what is the probability of getting the disease? What is the probability of 2 people inheriting the disease?
Genetics Biology
05/12/19
How would you compare meiosis to mitosis?
What is the difference between the two cellular processes? Is the ability to creat a haploid vs a diploid copy the best way to differentiate?
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Genetics Science
05/10/19
The transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next is what?
allelic transferco-dominancehereditydominance
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05/10/19
Can an adult without genetic lactase persistence still develop a tolerance for dairy foods?
While investigating the rise of adult lactose tolerance, I came across the news that China has been encouraging its citizens to drink more milk, even though most of the Asian population lacks the...
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05/09/19
Origin, or source, of rhesus negative in human blood?
This is my first post here, so please be gentle. I recently learned that I have Rh- blood (I'm A-), and was idly looking into blood types on Wikipedia. I was surprised to find that relatively few...
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Genetics Biology
05/09/19
What is the relationship between the concepts of chromatin and chromosomes? Are euchromatin and heterochromatin a part of chromosomes?
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05/09/19
Are homozygous carriers of the CCR5-Δ32 allele fully immune to all known strains of HIV?
Or is there documented evidence of even one homozygous carrier contracting HIV and staying infected?
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Genetics Biology
05/07/19
Do phylogenetically close species have cells with similar chromosome counts?
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Why do men have nipples?
I'd be tempted to call nipples in men vestigial, but that suggests they have no modern function. They _do_ have a function, of course, but only in women. So why do _men_ (and all male mammals) have...
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How can you identify if a person is homozygous for a certain allele?
I've been thinking about starting a small private research project. In this project I need to find out whether a person is homozygous for a certain allele. The reason for this is that I'm really...
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