DNA
... its exact value of 2 nanometres from an X-ray
pattern obtained by Franklin. The same
pattern also gave them the 3.4 nanometre-per-10 bp " ... aspect is that Franklin's critical X-ray
pattern was shown to Watson and Crick without Franklin's ...
X-ray crystallography
... is a technique in crystallography in which the
pattern produced by the diffraction of x-rays through ... information in diffraction experiments.
The
pattern of diffraction peaks can be used to quickly identify materials (thanks to the JCPDS
pattern database), and changes in peak width or position ...
Morphogenesis
... with the construction of asymmetries within the oocyte and proceeds to
pattern formation along the embryonic axes. The development of Drosophila is ... in one row of cells at the edge of each parasegment. This expression
pattern is initiated by the pair-rule genes (like even-skipped ) that code for ...
Gene
... of the word. Indeed, a breeder or geneticist, in following the inheritance
pattern of a trait, has no immediate way to know whether this
pattern arises from coding sequences or regulatory sequences. Typically, he or she ...
Genetic fingerprinting
... composition of foods. It has also been used to generate hypotheses on the
pattern of the human diaspora in prehistoric times.
Testing is subject to ... the radioactive pattern. This film is then developed to make a visible
pattern of bands called DNA fingerprinting.
Recently, an additional technique ...
Morphogenesis
... with the construction of asymmetries within the oocyte and proceeds to
pattern formation along the embryonic axes. The development of Drosophila is ... in one row of cells at the edge of each parasegment. This expression
pattern is initiated by the pair-rule genes (like even-skipped ) that code for ...
Secondary structure
... the same hydrogen bonding pattern. If the helix or sheet hydrogen bonding
pattern is too short they are designated as T or B, respectively. Other protein ...
W. Kabsch and C. Sander. Dictionary of Protein Secondary Structure:
pattern Recognition of Hydrogen Bonded and Geometrical Features. Biopolymers 22: ...
Avian influenza
... mice had been exposed to 21 isolates of confirmed H5N1 strains obtained from ducks in China between 1999 and 2002. They found "a clear temporal
pattern of progressively increasing pathogenicity". [1]
Symptoms
In humans, it has been found that avian flu causes similar symptoms to other types ...
Barr body
... chromosomes; in some regions of the body one allele will be active, and in other regions the other will. This is what results in the coloration
pattern of female calico cats ; pigmentation genes on the X chromosome are activated in different patches of skin based on which chromosome is condensed in ...
Cancer
... of the cell. The instability increases to a point where the cell loses whole chromosomes , or has double ones. Also, the DNA methylation
pattern of the cell changes, activating and deactivating genes more or less at random. Cells that divide at a high rate, such as epithelials , show a ...
Collagen
... of collagen is its regular arrangement of amino acids in each of the alpha chains of the collagen sub-units. The sequence generally follows the
pattern Gly-X-Y, where X is proline, and Y is proline or hydroxyproline. There are very few other proteins with such regularity. The inordinate number of Gly ...
Diabetes mellitus
... proportion of type 1 diabetics carry a mutation that causes maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY).
There is an even stronger inheritance
pattern for Type 2 diabetes; those with type 2 ancestors or relatives have very much higher chances of developing Type 2. It is also often connected to ...
Dialysis
... and 2-3 inches thick. They have tubing connectors at both ends. The technician or nurse will setup plumbing on the machine in a moderately complex
pattern that has been worked out to move blood through the filter, allow for saline drip (or not), allow for various other medications/chemicals to be ...
Endosymbiont
... switching between hosts with apparent ease. When reefs become environmentally stressed, this distribution of symbionts is related to the observed
pattern of coral bleaching and recovery. Thus the distribution of Symbiodinium on coral reefs and its role in coral bleaching presents one of the most ...
Endosymbiont
... switching between hosts with apparent ease. When reefs become environmentally stressed, this distribution of symbionts is related to the observed
pattern of coral bleaching and recovery. Thus the distribution of Symbiodinium on coral reefs and its role in coral bleaching presents one of the most ...
Francis Galton
... Galton wrote about the technique (inadvertently sparking a controversy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917 ), identifying common
pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day. He also estimated the probability of two persons having the same ...
Genomics
... article: Comparative genomics
Comparison of genomes has resulted in some surprising biological discoveries. If a particular DNA sequence or
pattern is present among many members of a clade , that sequence is said to have been conserved among the species. Evolutionary conservation of a DNA ...
Growth curve
... the number of bacteria present in a nutrient-containing broth was measured during the course of an 8 hour cell growth experiment . The observed
pattern of bacterial growth is bi-phasic because two different sugars were present, glucose and lactose. The bacteria prefer to consume glucose (Phase I) and ...
Hormone
... of a distant organ of the body. The function of hormones is to serve as a signal to the target cells; the action of hormones is determined by the
pattern of secretion and the signal transduction of the receiving tissue.
Hormone actions vary widely, but can include stimulation or inhibition of ...
Intron
... in variants of a given gene because the location is in some way predisposed to the introduction of an intron, and therefore that a similar intron
pattern may arise in two different species by a form of convergent evolution .
See also
selfish DNA
noncoding DNA
intein
Reference
...
Isozyme
... in a pseudogene . However, if the mutations do not immediately prevent the enzyme from functioning, but instead modify either its function, or its
pattern of gene expression , then the two variants may both be favoured by natural selection and become specialised to different functions. For example, ...
Leaf
...
Veins
The veins are the vascular tissue of the leaf and are located in the spongy layer of the mesophyll. They are typical examples of
pattern formation through ramification.
The veins are made up of:
xylem , which brings water from the stem into the leaf.
phloem , which usually ...
Macroecology
... 243: 1145-1150
Brown, J.H. 2000. Macroecology . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-07614-8
Gaston, K.J. and T.M. Blackburn. 2000.
pattern and Process in Macroecology . Blackwell Science. ISBN 0-632-05653-3
External links
Global Ecology and Biogeography - an important ...
Mathematical biology
... modelling of the heart [7]
Travelling waves in a wound-healing assay [8]
The mechanochemical theory of morphogenesis [9]
Biological
pattern formation [10]
Modelling the movement of interacting cell populations [11]
Mathematical modelling of scar tissue formation [12]
These ...
Mendelian inheritance
... in which the sperm and egg of parent organisms contained a sampling of the parent's "essence" and that they somehow blended together to form the
pattern for the offspring. This theory accounted for the fact that offspring tended to resemble their parents without all members of a population eventually ...
Molecular phylogeny
... have a high degree of agreement in the molecular structure of these substances, while the molecules of organisms distantly related usually show a
pattern of dissimilarity. Molecular phylogeny uses such data to build a "relationship tree" that shows the probable evolution of various organisms. Not ...
Parallel evolution
... through their evolution in similar ecosystems, but not at the same time ( dorsal fins of sharks and ichthyosaurs ).
A similar banding
pattern that is found in almost all species of moths is another example of parallel evolution.
Related articles
Convergent evolution
Evolutionary ...
Polymerase chain reaction
... other ending in C. The common primer would be the same. Following PCR, these two sets of reactions would be run out on an agarose gel, and the band
pattern will tell you if the individual is homozygous T, homozygous C, or heterzygous T/C. This methodology has several applications, such as amplifying ...
Prion
...
In 1965 , Brian Cox, a geneticist working with the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , described a genetic trait (termed [PSI+]) with an unusual
pattern of inheritance . Despite many years of effort, Cox could not identify a conventional mutation that was responsible for the [PSI+] trait. In 1994 , ...