Alan Boyd

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From the era before Sanger sequencing was invented.

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Dec 13	answered	What is the function of the RNA primer in DNA replication?
Dec 12	revised	What vegetation would thrive in the Martian atmosphere? edited body
Dec 12	revised	Bacterial cell lysis - what solution to use? made title more specific (now matches question)
Dec 12	answered	Bacterial cell lysis - what solution to use?
Dec 12	revised	Are there oligocellular organisms in nature and, if so, what are they like? clarity
Dec 12	revised	Are there oligocellular organisms in nature and, if so, what are they like? added 2 characters in body
Dec 12	answered	Are there oligocellular organisms in nature and, if so, what are they like?
Dec 11	revised	What vegetation would thrive in the Martian atmosphere? improved title
Dec 11	comment	What vegetation would thrive in the Martian atmosphere? It took (anaerobic) cyanobacteria one billion years to raise the atmospheric oxygen concentration on earth up to a level that supported aerobes.
Dec 11	answered	Experiments in vitro vs those with dead organisms and fixated tissue
Dec 11	answered	What vegetation would thrive in the Martian atmosphere?
Dec 10	comment	Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be? @nico I don't understand what you mean. If two cells differ because in one of them a region of the genome is amplified (e.g. single copy > tandem repeats) then the genome sequences are different. There may be no appearance of DNA with a novel sequence, but I don't think that anyone would argue that the two sequences were identical.
Dec 10	revised	Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be? added 4 characters in body
Dec 10	revised	Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be? added 28 characters in body
Dec 10	revised	Why does the cold make us sick? typo
Dec 10	answered	Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be?
Dec 10	revised	Gene & Protein nomenclature: N-Myc, c-Myc, et. al extended answer
Dec 10	comment	Does the DNA sequence of a butterfly match that of the caterpillar it used to be? By 'signature' do you mean sequence? Is the sequence of caterpillar DNA the same as the sequence of butterfly DNA? And if you do mean this you probably need to differentiate between somatic cells and germline cells in the butterfly.
Dec 10	answered	Gene & Protein nomenclature: N-Myc, c-Myc, et. al
Dec 8	answered	Are all known germs benign in small enough quantities? i.e. Why do we wash our hands?