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Plants, like all other known living organisms, pass on their traits using DNA. Plants however are unique from other living organisms in the fact that they have chloroplasts. Like mitochondria, chloroplasts have their own DNA.
2 lut 2021 · Cell-type-specific changes in chromatin accessibility and transcriptomes occur after a shift from short- to long-day growth conditions. Metabolic source isotopic pair labeling and genome-wide association are complementary tools for the identification of metabolite–gene associations in plants
13 mar 2015 · Like all living organisms, plants use deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their genetic material. The DNA in plant cells is found in the nucleus, the mitochondria and the chloroplasts. The latter two organelles are descendants of bacteria that were captured by a eukaryotic cell and have become endosymbionts. DNA is a coded set of instructions for ...
Substantial sets of genes are devoted to developmental processes of special importance in plants: more than 700 for synthesis and remodelling of the plant cell wall, for example, and more than 100 for detecting and responding to light.
Recent advances in tissue-culture technologies have provided new opportunities for recombining genes from different plant sources. In somatic hybridization, a process also known as cell fusion, cells growing in a culture medium are stripped of their protective walls, usually using pectinase, cellulase, and hemicellulase enzymes.
To a surprising degree, all cells are similar in design and function, whether in human beings, in plants, or as simple single-celled organisms such as bacteria. One major difference, however, is the presence or absence of a distinct compartment, the nucleus, for the genome.
3 cze 2024 · Here, we present activities to introduce some of the basic concepts of plant DNA and sequencing data to explore the curriculum topics of evolution, inheritance and variation, and bioinformatics. Students extract genetic material and explore the process of assembling genome sequences.
