Pedigree symbols Males are represented by squares. Females are represented by circles. Filled symbols show individuals who exhibit the trait in question. A horizontal line between two symbols represents a mating. A vertical line descends from parents to a horizontal line shared by all their offspring. A diagonal line through a symbol indicates that person …
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So you have this gene whose nucleotide sequence is known to you but its chromosomal location (locus) is unknown, how do you go about finding this locus? The short answer is FISH i.e fluorescence in situ hybridization. Here’s a quick list of the steps of FISH technique: 1- prepare a fluorescent probe (short nucleotide sequence …
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Dear LS students, please find attached the answer key to the quiz dated 31/10/2013 click on the link below to download it. 2013-10-31-answer_key
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I will distribute the test papers tomorrow so I won’t be publishing any grades here.
Dear LS students, please find below the heredity problem we talked about in class (for Wednesday, October 30, 2013) 1- A cross is done between two drosophilae of pure race : a female drosophila of grey body and veined wings with a male drosophila of yellow body and veinless wings. All the obtained members of …
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I have just published my first mobile app for android platform on google’s play store. I’ve made other apps for mobile in the past but these were for personal use and never really cared to publish them. This app is the first on the list of publishable stuff, more to come in the near future. …
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Dear students of Secondary 2 scientific, I’ve heard that some of you are having hard time understanding the mechanism of translation (mRNA ->protein) so here’s my assisting hand 🙂 click here to open the mechanism of translation lesson