Biochemistry
Lipids: What are Lipids, Phospholipids and Cholesterol?
Lipids are involved mainly in long-term energy storage. They are generally insoluble in polar substances such as water. Secondary functions of lipids include structural...
Cell Biology
What are the key structures and functions of the Mitochondria?
Mitochondria (Mc) are present in all eukaryotic cells and are the major sites of aerobic respiration within cells. they were first seen as granules...
What is mitosis? Steps of Mitosis and Importance
What is Mitosis? mitosis definition is the division of the mother cell into two daughter cells genetically identical to each other.
It is a nuclear division plus...
Immunology
Microbiology
What is Bacterial Stress Response?
Bacteria can survive under varied conditions (called as Bacterial Stress Response), and to overcome adverse conditions, the changes must be sensed by bacteria and mount...
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Molecular Biology
What is microRNA? Special class Post-Transcriptional Regulators
What are microRNAs? MicroRNA is a class of post-transcriptional regulators. They are short ~22 nucleotide RNA sequences that bind to complementary sequences in the...
What are the Transcriptional factors involved in Transcription?
A transcription factor is a protein involved in regulating DNA transcription, but not forming part of the RNA polymerase. Transcription factors (TF) can act...
Gene Silencing : Gene expression regulation at Particular Gene
What is Gene Silencing? The definition is "It is a process from the Genetics, wherein the gene expression is reduced. When gene regulation occurs through...
RNA Polymerase : The Enzyme Structure and Its Types
What is RNA Polymerase? The RNA polymerases or RNA-polymerized Proteins (RNAP) are a group of proteins with character enzyme capable of forming ribonucleotides to...
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Replicons: What is Replicons and Where it is located? (Basic Functions)
For most prokaryotic chromosomes, the replicon is the entire chromosome. One notable exception found comes from archaea, where two Sulfolobus species have been shown...
