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Fourier transformation
Biology; Biochemistry
An analysis based on Fourier's theorem that any periodic function may be reduced to a series of sine and cosine terms, each represented by an amplitude and a phase. The transformation is the casting ...
monoclonal antibody (mAb)
Biology; Biochemistry
An immunoglobulin preparation that is completely homogeneous, due to its formation by daughters of a single progenitor cell that has been programmed for the synthesis and secretion of one specific ...
ligase chain reaction (LCR)
Biology; Biochemistry
A technique for detection and amplification of target DNA sequences. Two oligodeoxynucleotides are synthesized which between them are complementary to the entire target sequence, one to the 5'-side ...
positional cloning (reverse genetics)
Biology; Biochemistry
The search for a gene (e.g. that for cystic fibrosis) with no knowledge of the gene product by locating it on the basis of linkage analysis with other genetic traits or individual polymorphisms in ...
initiation complex
Biology; Biochemistry
The ribosome charged with mRNA, initiation factors and methionyl-tRNA (in eukaryotes) or N-formylmethionyl-tRNA (in prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts) that is bound to the initiation codon.
spliceosome
Biology; Biochemistry
A complex of (small nuclear RNA)-protein complexes and other proteins that assemble on a pre-mRNA and catalyze the excision of an intron in a process mechanistically similar to group II ...
