Sentences with phrase «several pairs of genes»
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By counting the proportions of these traits in several generations of pea plants, the inquisitive monk concluded that these features must derive from pairs of what we now call genes, which he discovered were randomly divided between offspring.
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SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.
Working with French composer Richard Krüll, the pair turned the complete nucleotide sequences of several microbe genes into compositions based on DNA bases: A (adenosine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), and Thymine (which they have translated to «Re,» or D).
Researchers at several universities are working on the canine genome project, a massive undertaking to identify the hundreds of thousands of genes situated on the 39 pairs of chromosomes that make the dog a dog.