Sentences with phrase «same gene»

The researchers studied germs found in the feces of identical twins (siblings who share the exact same genes).

That very same gene exists in all wild rice plants, including varieties that grow abundantly in poor conditions.

«Gene mutations behind lack of a nose identified: Alterations in same gene previously associated with rare form of muscular dystrophy.»

«Same gene dictates size of two sensory brain areas.»

It might turn out that the very same gene determines how often a simple yeast cell dividesand how long a human being can live.

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 16 related orange and white tigers in captivity, fully mapping those of the three parent tigers to show that a mutation in one pigment gene called SLC45A2 is at play — the very same gene that drives lighter coloring in people of European ancestry, chickens, and some mice.

Exact same gene (pointing to common anscestry) but a small flaw that makes it useless.

Monsanto provided the same gene it is using in its drought - tolerant corn in the U.S. to researchers in Africa, and the first round of maize incorporating the gene will be harvested in South Africa this spring.

Now if these various structures were transmitted by the same gene couples, varied from time to time by mutations and acted upon by environmental selection, the theory would make good sense.

Who has claim to the time, attention, energy, money, and prayers that naturally belong to my blood relatives — the father who sired me, the mother who nursed me, the brothers and sisters who share the same genes?

Maybe because they are from the same gene pool.

why would God give Jesus the same genes as his mother and father?

The one he does mention is that identical twins have the same gene combination.

Not quite as rich and sweet as an oatmeal cookie (otherwise it would just be one), but it shares the same genes for sure.

But lest you think those who lack the «happy marriage» gene are doomed to a life of perpetual divorce, researchers suggest that these individuals are actually happier when they encounter someone with their same gene «deficiency.»

You become a family not because you share the same genes, but because you share love for each other.»

All the babies start with the same gene set: They're either all boys or all girls, and they'll look alike.

Even though identical twins share the same genes, they can be very different in many ways.

If her babies problem is genetic perhaps the same genes make mothers are prone to problems as well.

Although this could mean that new genes are turned on in middle childhood, it is more likely that the same genes have different effects in the brains of 8 - year - olds as compared to 4 - year - olds (Plomin, 1986).

«We wondered whether some of those same genes could also cause seizures if they were expressed in the brain and, if so, whether those genes would also place people with epilepsy at risk not only for having epilepsy but also an abnormal heart beat and risk of death,» said Noebels.

The researchers then found that these same genes carry an additional risk for a phenomenon called spreading depolarization, a slowly - progressing, temporary electrical blackout of a region in the brain.

Now, new research has found several rare genetic mutations on the same gene that definitively connect the two.

Because different mutations in the same gene caused the three behaviors, we concluded that per is somehow actively involved both in producing circadian rhythm in flies and in setting the rhythm's pace.

For example, it is hard to obtain the same gene expression in different cells, even if they are grown in the same medium.

For example, some variations of a gene are better suited for a dry climate, while other variations of that same gene are better suited for wetter environments.

Although identical twins have the same genes as each other, their epigenomes — the collection of methyl marks studding their DNA — are different by the time they reach adulthood due in part to environmental factors.

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

The same genes are often affected in the same diseases in both species.

Dr Paul Waters, an ARC fellow in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW Australia, says that the X and Y chromosomes started their existence as normal autosomes (non-sex chromosomes) harbouring the same genes.

(Each of his parents, it turns out, carried a different recessive mutation of the same gene.

Complex traits like the ones in the study are each influenced by many different genes, while at the same time, several different traits can be affected by the same genes.

The same gene mutation also contributes to the resistance that these flies have to the toxic acids produced in the fruits and killing all other fruit fly species.

Researchers have known for decades that organisms on all parts of the evolutionary tree have many of the same genes.

The researchers did not find such changes in the same genes of the cow and human, who eat more varied diets and would not need such enhancements.

Now David He at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and colleagues have shown that the same gene can repair guinea pigs» existing, damaged hair cells — as long as you get to them in time.

Identical twins have the same genes, right?

Just as the same genes that allow Deinococcus to thrive on the ground may give it the ability to survive at high altitudes, the ice - nucleation gene may originally have given syringae and bacteria like it an advantage other than rainmaking.

«It speaks to the importance of the gene, which is required for development but when overexpressed becomes more lethal for males,» Anholt said, «Moreover, the same gene has conserved counterparts in all animals, including people.»

Identical twins — who share the same genes — reported similar experiences, while fraternal twins, with some different sets of genes, often differed in their responses.

In modern times, those same genes are a prescription for plumpness.

A new study from the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (CDN) at IoPPN, King's College London carried out in collaboration with the Duke - NUS Medical School, Singapore and the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech, USA suggests that neurons often co-express functionally distinct alternative products from the same gene.

And scientists have isolated some of the essential genes that allow bacteria to tolerate their harsh living conditions — because these same genes might help in the creation of new vaccines.

Although they are not all related, they share the same gene for ice nucleation.

It is already known that the same gene variant can behave differently depending on which parent it came from, due to a process called imprinting — which determines which of a parent's genes are expressed in the child.