Sentences with phrase «first eukaryotic gene»

We started with Xenopus rRNA because it was the first eukaryotic gene ever cloned.

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Many of these eukaryotic genes resemble plant genes — hinting that Chlamydia's ancestors may have first parasitized plantlike microorganisms.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.