Carrier

carrier
a phenotypically normal individual heterozygous for a normal allele and a mutant allele
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row ...
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Carrier , a video game for the Sega Dreamcast
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a unit in the computer game StarCraft, the Protoss Carrier.
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An asymptomatic carrier (or just carrier), is a person who is infected with an infectious disease or carries the abnormal gene of a recessive genetic disorder, but displays no symptoms.
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An individual who possesses one copy of a mutant allele that causes disease only when two copies are present. Although carriers not affected by the disease, two carriers can produce a child who has the disease.
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carrier: A person who has one copy of the gene mutation for a recessive disorder. Carriers are not affected by the disorder. However, they can pass on the mutated gene to their children.
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carrier proteins - membrane transport protein that binds to a solute and transports it across the membrane by undergoing a series of conformational changes ...
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Carrier
: A healthy person who is a heterozygote for a recessive trait. Also includes persons with balanced chromosomal translocations. The unfortunate use of ‘carrier' to describe
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[L. carrier]
In recombinant DNA, a small, self-replicating DNA molecule, or a portion thereof, into which a DNA segment can be spliced and introduced into a cell; generally a plasmid or a virus.
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The carrier then passes the electron to the next carrier. Because it used some energy to pump H+, it has less energy (reducing capability) to pass to the next H+ pump.
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vectors: the carriers of DNA genes to be inserted into cells.
veins: channels through which fluid flows toward the heart.
vena cava :the major vein in the human heart; pumps oxygen-poor blood into the right atrium.
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A23187 - mobile-carrier calcium ionophore (allows Ca++ ions to cross cell membranes) originally isolated as an antibiotic from Streptomyces chartreusensis. Also known as Calcimycin, Antibiotic A23187.
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Carrier -- an individual heterozygous for a single recessive gene. cDNA -- complementary DNA produced from a RNA template by the action of RNA- dependent DNA polymerase.
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The cowpox virus used to vaccinate against smallpox and, experimentally, as a carrier of genes for antigenic determinants cloned from other disease organisms. Variable surface glycoprotein (VSG).
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coenzyme A A coenzyme serving as an acyl group carrier in certain enzymatic reactions. Composed of pantothenic acid and adenine. Structure coenzyme B12 An enzymatic cofactor derived from the vitamin cobalamin, involved in alkyl group transfers.
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Most living things use the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) as the physical carrier of inheritance and the genetic information. Some organisms, such as retroviruses (of which HIV is a member), use RNA (ribonucleic acid) as the carrier.
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If sickle cell anemia is so deadly, why are so many people heterozygous carriers of the disease? Moreover, why does the disease afflict predominantly one racial group? Surpisingly, the answer has to do with malaria.
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Churn costs telecom carriers a large amount of money each year, and reducing churn is an important factor in increasing profitability.
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There are no smallpox "carriers" as there are for such diseases as typhoid fever and malaria.
An effective vaccine was available. The vaccine could quickly establish a strong (and reasonably long-lasting) immunity.
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FM audio for television channel 6 is broadcast at a carrier frequency of 87.
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nicotine adenine dinucleotide A local electron carrier that transfers hydrogen atoms and electrons within metabolic pathways; a free-moving carrier, not membrane bound in a transport system; NAD+.
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lipid soluble substance that forms a channel or acts as a carrier in a lipid bilayer membrane to allow specific ions can move across the membrane. A23187 is an example of a calcium ionophore.
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ElectronTransportChain a system of electron carriers embedded into the inner membrane of a mitochondrion to transfer energy from electrons to O2 to form water
(elektron = amber from the electrical charge produced by rubbing [friction] on amber) ...
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Classical experiments established that nucleic acids are the genetic molecules, the carriers of heredity.
Characteristics of DNA are important for understanding the transmission of genetic characters.
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The reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate that serves as an electron carrier.
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A combination of methodologies that allows a fluorescent signal that is first seen in living cells to be processed at any given time for immunoelectron microscopy, so that the fine structure and molecular make-up of the carrier that elicited the ...
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Vector Generally a carrier nucleic acid molecule which allows transfer of inserted (recombinant) DNA into a host cell.
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