repetitive

Microsatellite

... mobile element , transposon , short interspersed repetitive element , long interspersed repetitive element , junk DNA , selfish DNA...

Homunculus

...its own thoughts then this would lead to an absurd repetitive cycle or 'regress': "According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything intelligently, his act is preceded and steered by another internal act of considering a regulative proposition appropriate to his practical problem." "Must we then say t...

DNA

... DNA profiling the relative lengths of sections of repetitive DNA, such as short tandom repeats and minisatellites are compared. DNA profiling was developed in 1984 English geneticist Alec Jeffries , and was first used in 1986 in the Enderby murders case in Leicestershire , England. Many jurisdictio...

Chromosome

...located around the centromere and usually contains repetitive sequences. Facultative heterochromatin , which is sometimes expressed. Figure 2: Different levels of DNA condensation. (1) Single DNA strand. (2) Chromatin strand ( DNA with histones ). (3) Chromatin during interphase with cen...

Centromere

...quence . It typically consists of large arrays of repetitive DNA where the sequence within individual repeat elements is similar but not identical. In humans, the centromeric repeat unit is called α-satellite. However, repeats of α-satellite are not sufficient to cause the assembly of a kinetocho...

Biomechanics

...tests. Some soft tissues can be preconditioned by repetitive cyclic loading to the extent where the stress-strain curves for the loading and unloading portions of the tests nearly overlap. Nonlinear Theories Hooke's law is linear, but many, if not most problems in biomechanics, involve highly nonlinear ...