Daniel Standage

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Mar 21	asked	To which distinctions does the term “hymenoptera” refer?
Mar 21	revised	Which factors besides the thermodynamic stability are important for the hairpin in intrinsic transcription termination? edited tags
Mar 20	awarded	Nice Question
Mar 18	revised	Basic Amino Acid Residue Binding Mechanism to DNA edited tags
Mar 17	revised	What are the evolutionary niches differentiating an apple from a pear? a few grammatical changes
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Mar 17	comment	What effect does vortexing have on a fluid sample that simple mechanical shaking does not? +1 for reducing technical error!
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Mar 7	revised	Do white Australians have a distinct look? lots of minor edits, especially capitalizing proper nouns
Mar 7	revised	When are population dynamics models useful? fixed lots of spelling errors, a few words
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Mar 3	revised	Human sleep cycles and dream times, what influences the timing and intensity? Sleep history included corrected quotations
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Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression @Larry_Parnell +1 for mentioning transcription of the majority of the genome.
Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression @shigeta If you were to write an answer beginning with "No, there is not an estimate" and then provide an explanation based on your comment (or even just copy and paste your comment), I'm sure you would get some up votes! You would definitely get mine, and you might even get the accepter answer!
Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression @shigeta That is an excellent point. One reason I wrote the question in the first place is because I was beginning to wonder how such complex regulation schemes could be possible without the majority of genes in the genome being devoted primarily to regulation of other genes. And I understand that the question is complicated by the fact that proteins can have different functions in different contexts, which is why in the original question I used (perhaps naively) the words "primary function."
Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression @Amy Although I do agree that degradation and turnover unnecessarily broadens the scope of the question.
Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression @Amy "Gene expression = transcription" is a very limited view of gene expression. The more widely accepted definition of expression is the derivation of a functional gene product from the gene. If the RNA itself is functional, then yes transcription is sufficient. But for protein coding genes "gene expression" definitely includes translation of the mRNA. Many proteins then require further processing to be functional, and one could argue that a protein is not fully expressed until it is functional. Whether one agrees with that or not, though, gene expression is not synonymous with transcription
Mar 2	comment	Percentage of genome devoted to regulating gene expression Just to be clear, by "regulation of gene expression" I meant to refer to anything that has to do with regulating transcription, regulating translation, regulating activity post-translation, and regulating degradation. Perhaps I should have worded that differently.