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2/ As the DNA is strung together into its base paired double stranded structure it begins to coil around. Each one of these twists in the DNA is about 10 nucleotides long. https://...
7/ Males get 1 X and a Y chromosome. When they end up with a defective X chromosome, they have no spare to help them because the X and Y chromosomes encode different genes.. This l...
1/ The rules of Mendelian Genetics treats every gene as if it were on a separate chromosome. Every gene has a 50% chance of making it into any gamete. https://t.co/JehFG1m97v
5/ The repeat segments become the tracrRNA that will get loaded into an enzyme called CAS9. CAS9 stands for CRISPR Associated Protein 9. The CAS9 will recognize the tracrRNA and bi...
11/ The major advance in CAS enzyme was the discovery of other CAS enzyme in other microbes. There has been an explosion of new CAS enzymes that we can use to develop editing tools...
6/ By looking at the patterns of inheritance on a pedigree, we can quickly see how the trait is passed. If the trait affects both males and females, its an autosomal trait. If it o...
Transcription Here we will look at the process of turning DNA into messenger RNA.
16/ This binding of the phosphate group from the 5' carbon of one nucleotide to the 3' carbon of the previous nucleotide strings the nucleotide together into a long strand of DNA....
7/ This is often called the reduction phase as the new cells go from Diploid with 2 copies of each chromosome to Haploid which is just 1 copy of each chromosome. You can get a new...
4/ The output is always 256 bits or 64 characters in alpha numeric fashion. This uses all 26 letters and all 10 numbers from A - Z and 0 - 9. The output looks like below. This is a...
7/ The second concept of epigenetics is the Acetylation and Deacetylation of the Histones which package the DNA. I mentioned these enzymes before in DNA packaging. https://t.co/vju...
22/ The basic concept is not every person who gets the gene for a disease will get the disease. Some diseases are 100%. If you get that gene, you definitely will get the disease. O...