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For Teachers
Tools and resources for teaching the concepts of transcription and translation, two key steps in gene expression
… of transcription and translation, two key steps in gene expression . … Transcription is the process of making an RNA copy of a gene sequence. This copy, called a messenger RNA (mRNA) …
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A transcriptome is a collection of all the gene readouts present in a cell.
… A transcriptome is a collection of all the gene readouts present in a cell. … The human genome is made … words, copied - into RNA ( ribonucleic acid ) . These gene readouts are called transcripts, and a transcriptome is … determine the amount of gene activity - also called gene expression - in a certain cell or tissue type. In humans and …
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Genetics refers to the study of genes and their roles in inheritance. Genomics refers to the study of all of a person's genes (the genome).
… … Understanding more about diseases caused by a single gene (using genetics) and complex diseases caused by multiple … and will be clones of the common ancestor bacterial cell. Gene cloning involves manipulations to make multiple identical copies of a single gene from the same ancestor gene. Cloning an organism means …
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A biological pathway is a series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in the cell.
… Other metabolic pathways actually help to build molecules. Gene-regulation pathways turn genes on and off. Such action … a certain product or a change in the cell. … Biochemistry, Gene Expression, Metabolism, Medication … A biological pathway is …
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Genetic mapping offers evidence that a disease transmitted from parent to child is linked to one or more genes and clues about where a gene lies on a chromosome.
… and provides clues about which chromosome contains the gene and precisely where the gene lies on that chromosome. … Among the main goals of the … also provides clues about which chromosome contains the gene and precisely where the gene lies on that chromosome. …
Policy Issues
Scientific institutions are developing recommendations to support the responsible use of human gene-editing research.
… genome-editing research. … In light of recent advances in gene-editing research and technologies, the National … decision making for the responsible use of human gene-editing research. This initiative examined the clinical, ethical, legal and social implications of human gene editing. Their efforts included an international summit …
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Genome-wide association studies involve scanning markers across the genomes of many people to find genetic variations associated with a particular disease​.
… form of blindness is associated with variation in the gene for complement factor H, which produces a protein … Study, the Women's Health Initiative and the Candidate Gene Association Resource, which pools DNA samples collected … … Genome-Wide Association Studies, GWAS, DNA, Genome, Gene Expression, Gene Variation, Personalized Medicine, Gene …
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Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… the information needed to build the entire human body. A gene traditionally refers to the unit of DNA that carries the … Specifically, an enzyme copies the information in a gene's DNA into a molecule called messenger ribonucleic acid … of all the bases in a large piece of DNA such as a gene, researchers need to read the sequence of overlapping …
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an essential molecule that performs many roles in the cell, from carrying the instructions to make proteins to regulating genes.
… the RNA do its job in the cell.  This process, where a gene produces RNA molecules, is also referred to as gene expression .  … One gene can produce many different …
About Genomics
In 2003, an accurate and complete human genome sequence was finished two years ahead of schedule and at a cost less than the original estimated budget.
… Project covers about 99 percent of the human genome's gene-containing regions, and it has been sequenced to an … 30,000 STSs 52,000 STSs October 1998 DNA Sequence 95% of gene-containing part of human sequence finished to 99.99% … Human Genome Sequencing, Long-range Planning, Gene Expression, Sequence Variations, Phenotypes, Large-scale …