Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are mobile genetic elements present in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. In a donor cell, ICEs...
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antibiotic resistance and the ability to transpose to conjugative plasmids. Some TEs also contain integrons, genetic elements that can capture and express genes...
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Prion (redirect from Proteinaceous and infection)
encephalopathy (TSEs), which are fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases affecting both humans and animals. These proteins can misfold sporadically...
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Ice (disambiguation) (section Computing and technology)
reactions Ice-ice, a disease condition of seaweed Integrative and conjugative element, a mobile genetic element 4-Methylaminorex, a stimulant drug known as...
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Virus (redirect from Assembly and budding)
Dunigan DD, Edwards KF, Fuhrmann JJ, et al. (February 2022). "Towards an integrative view of virus phenotypes". Nature Reviews. Microbiology. 20 (2): 83–94...
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Animal (section Numbers and habitats of major phyla)
also an important cultural element of human evolution, having appeared in cave arts and totems since the earliest times, and are frequently featured in...
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been proposed that eliminate one or more of these elements, swap out an element for one not on the list, or change required chiralities or other chemical...
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"Evolutionary Integration of Chloroplast Metabolism with the Metabolic Networks of the Cells". In Burnap RL, Vermaas WF (eds.). Functional Genomics and Evolution...
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Plant (section Growth and repair)
28 May 2022. Hall, John D.; McCourt, Richard M. (2014). "Chapter 9. Conjugating Green Algae Including Desmids". In Wehr, John D.; Sheath, Robert G.;...
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membrane (MAM) is another structural element that is increasingly recognized for its critical role in cellular physiology and homeostasis. Once considered a...
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Archaea (section Discovery and classification)
Spang A, Foster PG, Heaps SE, Boussau B, et al. (June 2017). "Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life". Proceedings...
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Plasmid (section Properties and characteristics)
ways. Plasmids can be broadly classified into conjugative plasmids and non-conjugative plasmids. Conjugative plasmids contain a set of transfer genes which...
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An endogenous viral element (EVE) is a DNA sequence derived from a virus, and present within the germline of a non-viral organism. EVEs may be entire...
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the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. The cell had a lipid bilayer; it possessed the genetic code and ribosomes which translated from...
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phagemid or phasmid is a DNA-based cloning vector, which has both bacteriophage and plasmid properties. These vectors carry, in addition to the origin of plasmid...
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Protist (section Haptista and Cryptista)
Bibcode:2013FunE....6..237G. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2013.03.005. Urrutia, Ander; Mitsi, Konstantina; Foster, Rachel; Ross, Stuart; Carr, Martin; Ward, Georgia...
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of viruses as existing at the border between chemistry and life; a gray area between living and nonliving. If viruses are borderline cases or nonliving...
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Fungus (section Growth and physiology)
"Polysaccharide K and Coriolus versicolor extracts for lung cancer". Integrative Cancer Therapies. 14 (3): 201–211. doi:10.1177/1534735415572883. PMID 25784670...
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Obelisk (biology) (section Distribution and pathology)
a microscopic genetic element that consists of a type of infectious agent composed of RNA. Described as a "viroid-like element", they consist of RNA in...
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Bacteria (section Origin and early evolution)
environmental conditions and seems to be an adaptation for facilitating repair of DNA damage in recipient cells. Second, bacteriophages can integrate into the bacterial...
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of the origin of transfer (oriT) and DNA relaxase required for conjugation of the integrative and conjugative element ICEBs1 of Bacillus subtilis". Journal...
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(/ˈnænoʊb, ˈneɪnoʊb/) is a tiny filamental structure first found in some rocks and sediments. Some scientists hypothesize that nanobes are the smallest form...
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JE, Liao B, Li S (2006). "Comparative analysis and integrative classification of NCI60 cell lines and primary tumors using gene expression profiling data"...
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(2017-11-02). "3.7 billion year old biogenic remains". Communicative & Integrative Biology. 10 (5–6): e1380759. doi:10.1080/19420889.2017.1380759. ISSN 1942-0889...
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intermediate stages of abiogenesis, scientist Sidney W. Fox in the 1950s and 1960s, studied the spontaneous formation of peptide structures under conditions...
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plastid is a membrane-bound organelle found in the cells of plants, algae, and some other eukaryotic organisms. Plastids are considered to be intracellular...
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Cosmid (section Cosmid features and uses)
be used to build genomic libraries. They were first described by Collins and Hohn in 1978. Cosmids can contain 37 to 52 (normally 45) kb of DNA, limits...
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of the viral capsid, which stores the viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and are vertical, or perpendicular, to the surface of the capsid. Apart from...
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"beside", "beyond", "near") and κάρυον (káryon, "nut", "kernel", "nucleus"), and reflects its distinction from eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The specific...
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Tandem repeat (section Detection and analysis)
repeats occur in DNA when a pattern of one or more nucleotides is repeated and the repetitions are directly adjacent to each other, e.g. ATTCG ATTCG ATTCG...
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