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Biotechnology
Also known as 'Biotech' , it is the use of micro-organisms and biological substances to perform specific industrial or manufacturing procedures.
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ribozyme
Biology; Biochemistry
An RNA molecule that owing to peculiarities in its folding, is able to catalyze the interchange of some of its phosphodiester linkages to achieve intramolecular splicing. Examples ...
ribosome jumping
Biology; Biochemistry
5'-Cap-dependent initiation of translation of some viral mRNAs in which a ribosome subunit recognizes the 5'-cap of the mRNA but 'jumps' over the 5'-non-translated region of ...
multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD)
Biology; Biochemistry
For proteins that contain a heavy metal, or synthesized with selenomethionine in place of methionine, an approach to solving their X-ray crystallography structure that takes ...
knock-out
Biology; Biochemistry
An animal or plant from which a certain gene has been deliberately deleted, in order to observe, as a test for the gene's physiological significance, the viability or phenotype of ...
inverse PCR
Biology; Biochemistry
A PCR protocol for amplification of sequences that flank a single known sequence. The source DNA is digested with a restriction endonuclease, circularized and ligated. Primers are ...
contig map
Biology; Biochemistry
A characterization of a chromosome or large portion of one by contiguous sequences, which are zones of overlap of partially characterized segments; especially used as a strategy ...
propionate rule
Biology; Biochemistry
Analogous to the acetate and isoprene rules, the observation that some natural products are assembled from multiple propionate (propionyl-CoA and methylmalonyl-CoA) units in ...
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