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As a graduate student, Struhl cloned and functionally expressed the first eukaryotic protein-coding gene in E.coli, a landmark in recombinant DNA technology. [6] [7] Cloned yeast genes were essential for Gerald Fink to develop transformation methods that Struhl used to co-discover DNA replication origins [8] [9] and to create the first vectors for molecular genetic manipulations in yeast. [8]
Kevin MacTaggert, best known as Proteus and also called Mutant X, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is commonly associated with the X-Men as an antagonist. Kevin was the mutant son of Scottish genetic researcher Moira MacTaggert and politician Joseph MacTaggert.
Chromosome 11 spans about 135 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells. The shorter arm (p arm) is termed 11p while the longer arm (q arm) is 11q. At about 21.5 genes per megabase, chromosome 11 is one of the most gene-rich, and disease-rich, chromosomes in the human ...
Other factors include the loss of methylation, increasing gene expression heterogeneity correlating to genomic abnormalities, [4] and telomere shortening. [9] It is uncertain if transcription-based DNA repair takes part in the maintaining of somatic mutations in aging tissues. [4]
Double-strand break repair protein MRE11 (Meiotic recombination 11) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MRE11 gene. [5] The gene has been designated MRE11A to distinguish it from the pseudogene MRE11B that is nowadays named MRE11P1 .
[11] This genetic mutation was later dubbed the X-Gene. At one point, Beast states that the X-Gene is located on the 23rd chromosome; [12] the process described is that the gene activates mutation producing a protein stimulating chemical signals which induce mutations on other genes. [13]
Recurrent evolution also referred to as repeated [1] [2] or replicated [3] evolution is the repeated evolution of a particular trait, character, or mutation. [4] Most evolution is the result of drift, often interpreted as the random chance of some alleles being passed down to the next generation and others not.
The level is 12.5% in Belgium, 11% in Georgia and 10% in Austria and Great Britain. [6] Some specific subclades of K among Europeans are K1a1b2b in Finland , [ 7 ] K1a3a1 in Sardinia , [ 8 ] K1a19 in Hungary , [ 9 ] K1b1b1a in Greeks , [ 10 ] K1b1c in Serbia , [ 11 ] Slovakia , [ 12 ] and Poland , [ 13 ] K1c2 in Irish [ 14 ] and Germans [ 15 ...