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A transcriptome is a collection of all the gene readouts present in a cell.
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Meiosis is the formation of egg and sperm cells. In sexually reproducing organisms, body cells are diploid, meaning they contain two sets of chromosomes (one set from each parent).
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Metaphase is a stage during the process of cell division (mitosis or meiosis).
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Mitosis is a cellular process that replicates chromosomes and produces two identical nuclei in preparation for cell division.
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Mitochondrial DNA is the small circular chromosome found inside mitochondria.
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A Golgi body, also known as a Golgi apparatus, is a cell organelle that helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell.
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A germ line is the sex cells (eggs and sperm) that are used by sexually reproducing organisms to pass on genes from generation to generation.
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A cell cycle is a series of events that takes place in a cell as it grows and divides.
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Endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membranes inside a cell through which proteins and other molecules move.
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NHGRI researchers, collaborators at the University of California (UC) San Diego, UC Davis and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine lay out a new framework for comparing dog-to-human aging, one that uses epigenetics as a biological marker to better understand the aging process.
… a process by which modifications occur in the genome, as a biological marker to study the aging process. By comparing … and death. But researchers have long sought specific biological events that govern when such life stages take … patterns are similar to humans. "Dogs experience the same biological hallmarks of aging as humans, but do so in a …