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Through research and plant breeding, manipulation of different plant genes and loci encoded by the DNA sequence of the plant chromosomes by various methods can be done to produce different or desired genotypes that result in different or desired phenotypes.
The genes of most plant and some animal (e.g., insects and fish) species carry transposons, which are short, naturally occurring pieces of DNA with the ability to move from one location to another in the genome.
13 mar 2015 · 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, RNA, and protein are composed of just six elements: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. These are all plentiful in the nonliving environment, in the Earth's rocks, water, and atmosphere, but not in chemical forms that allow easy incorporation into biological molecules.
2 lut 2021 · This review discusses the features of cis-regulatory sequences in plants, technologies enabling their identification, characterization, and validation, their organization into functional cis-regulatory modules, their genomic distributions with respect to target genes, and the role of transposable elements in their evolution.
Four types of these bases compose both strands of DNA. Two of the bases, collectively called purines — Adenine (A) and Guanine (G) — contain two rings of carbon atoms. The other two, collectively called pyrimidines — Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T) — have only one ring of carbon atoms.
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.
