Questions tagged [eukaryotic-cells]
Organisms whose cells contain organelles, complex structures enclosed within membranes, in particular a nucleus.
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What metabolically happens when an egg fuses with the nucleus of a somatic cell
In stem cell biology, it is recognized that embryonic stem cells are transcriptionally inactive for the first 3 days of development. However, during somatic cell nuclear transfer, the nucleus is ...
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Why are Chromosome Territories important?
Chromosomes occupy discrete regions of the nucleus, referred to as 'Chromosome Territories'. This spatial organization is emerging as a crucial aspect of gene regulation and genome stability in health ...
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Do eukaryotes assimilate DNA that is floating in the extracellular membrane?
Prokayotes, which replicate primarily using binary fission, don't get much genetic diversity. For this reason, they take in any genetic material they encounter, in a gambit to help them better adapt ...
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How stable is linear DNA transfected in eukaryotic cells?
I would like to know, with references from the literature, what is the half life of a linear dsDNA transfected in a mammalian cells.
For example, if I transfect human cells with a PCR product (500-...
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How did the nucleus of eukaryotic cells evolve?
What is/are the most popular theory/theories on how the nucleus evolved?
I know mitochondria came from alpha-proteobacteria, chloroplasts from cyanobacteria and that eukaryotes evolved directly from ...
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Difference in multicellularity between prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms
As most prokaryotic organisms are single-celled, and in eukaryotic organisms this is the reverse, is there some evolutionary advantage that led to these features evolving? Or is it purely the fact ...
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What attaches plant cells to the cell wall?
In animal cells integrins span the plasma membrane and attach the cell membrane to the extracellular matrix. I was wondering how are plant cells attached to the cell wall? Is it just the middle ...
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Can plasmodial slime molds be infected by virus?
According to the definition, plasmodial slime mold consist of a "single cell" with thousands of nuclei. How would such a unique type of cell response to viral infection (if any)? Google search yield ...
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How many different chemical substances are there (on the average) in a human cell?
How many different chemical substances are there (on the average) in a human cell?
I saw of an estimation of ~ 1 billion (10^9) in sci-pop books.
Is there any reliable estimation rooted in the ...
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What renders a cytoplasm basophilic?
I know that being basophilic or acidophilic corresponds to affinity to certain dyes used in microscopy.
What i want to know is what characteristics of the cytoplasm can we infer from its basophilic ...
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Plants and Specialised Cells
Would the number of specialised cells in a leaf decrease if the plant was located in a shadier area? I thought it would decrease as there would be no need to store as much food in the plant and that ...
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Are there differences between the activation proteins of Eukaryotes and those of Prokaryotes
I'm in BIO 203 (for reference to my skill level), and I noticed the textbook makes a whole section out of transcriptional activator proteins, their function and applications in eukaryotes, but in ...
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About genomic imprinting
In the context of genomic imprinting, how does a human cell "know" whether a chromosome is paternal or maternal(out of a homologous pair), in order to silence genes?
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Need either a [similar] ribosome to the following few | a heuristic for finding [similar] macromolecule given 20 others
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Hi! I am running a small experiment dealing with structural heterogeneity of the ribosome, actually of ribosomes across all domains of life. It's entirely computational: I get cryoEM ...
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Osmotic gradient across cell membranes
In a typical cell in the human body, is the intracellular fluid typically hyper- or hypoosmotic to the extracellular fluid, e.g., is the osmolality of cytoplasm higher or lower than that on the ...
