Sentences with phrase «make gene combinations»

However, the downside comes when the inevitable accumulation of mutations takes its toll, or changes to the environment make gene combinations less well suited than they had once been.

Not exact matches

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

Our genes are long stretches of DNA molecules, which are made up of combinations of four chemical DNA «letters.»

Zanders says the combination of their genetics experiments and imaging studies provide ample evidence that wtf genes make both a poison and antidote.

If the new combination of gene variants make the offspring better suited for growth in its current environment, that bacterium will rapidly divide asexually, outcompete its parental (or sibling) strains and become established as an emerging strain or species in its own right.

The discovery, made possible through a combination of cutting - edge stem cell and gene - editing technologies, could lead to ways of countering age - related physiological declines by preventing or reversing damage to heterochromatin.

Last month, Lu's lab reported a different approach to combating resistant bacteria by identifying combinations of genes that work together to make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics.

Scientists are making combinations of genes that are not found in nature.

Finally, small beads are used to sort the mixture of DNA fragments into the right combinations to make longer genes, and the sections are combined.

Genes are made up of a combination of four bases Read more

Now, two independent groups report having made the process even simpler, by soaking fibroblasts in combinations of small molecules, thereby obviating the need to tinker with gene expression to turn the cells into neurons.

Seeing as genotype (the gene combination responsible for the colour) is often unknown, choices are generally made from phenotype (what the dog looks like) at the time of registration.

That makes them rarer than males certainly (because in males the X gene in the XY combination takes over, so that even if both parents were not orange, a cat with an X orange gene will be orange — it happens more often in other words).

For example, you have a combination of genes in your DNA that makes you genetically - predisposed to a certain level of aggression (generally speaking).