Sentences with phrase «place on the chromosomes»

«But fruit flies have all their histone genes in one place on the chromosome; this makes it feasible to delete the normal genes and replace them with designer genes.»

Not exact matches

Inserting a CRISPR - Cas9 complex — made up of the cutting gene, the RNA guide and the transgene — on a mosquito chromosome immediately snips out a place on the complementary chromosome.

For example, improperly placed crossovers or the complete lack of crossovers on chromosome 21 are a major cause of trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome in humans.

«Eventually we discovered wheat does have all these C4 genes in different places, on different chromosomes.

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is associated with a specific genetic mutation that results from DNA on different chromosomes breaking off and swapping places.

They arrived at that estimate by showing that the Norway rat and the house mouse, which diverged from each other somewhere between 12 million and 24 million years ago, have the same filovirus gene pieces integrated at the same places on the same chromosomes.

In this case, Zhijian «Jake» Tu and colleagues found that placing a particular Y chromosome gene on the autosomes of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes — a species responsible for transmitting malaria — killed off 100 percent of all female embryos that inherited this gene.

Any large deletions, or other rearrangements of part of a chromosome can be identified, and using modern nucleic acid probes, individual cloned genes can be placed on the polytene map.

It is convenient to give an alphabetical nomenclature to them in the places (loci, plural of locus) on the chromosome where those genes are located.

Fading of black coats (a tinge of rust or brown in some part of the hairs) can be caused by several things: a recessive gene for liver - dilute pigment, or modifier genes located on different places or chromosomes, for example.