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Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics.

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What is a 21q21 deletion?

Two likely scenarios. Interstitial deletion. More likely. Where just a small internal part of the chromosome is missing. This is like pressing "delete" for a while in the middle of a text document. De …
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Standard notation for crossings (female, male)

For plants, seed (egg cell) parent is shown first and pollen (sperm) parent second. The rule is mentioned in wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology) section : in plants. Another menti …
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Chromosomal disorders

The only "complete" monosomy that is survivable in humans is Turner syndrome. So your source is a bit silly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosomy
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Are Oct4 and Oct3 the same protein?

I found the below by using the search terms of "genbank oct3" I see the names and splicing variations at: "Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology" http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org …
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Preservation of citrus fruit

As far as processing for juice, Pectinases are used to extract more juice from the pulp. GM from Aspergillus niger or Penicillium spp. For citrus fruit with any bitterness, naringinase is used to dest …
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Why/How do Cyanobacteria Produce Toxins?

This available paper has some ideas, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736421/ Search terms cyanotoxin and evolutionary give at least two more promising papers. https://www.biorxiv.org/co …
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Can the activity of a specific gene in a cell artficially be increased?

If you are after large amounts of a particular protein, search "recombinant protein production". It is a huge field.
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What is the probability for an offspring to inherit schizophrenia?

Haven't directly answered this I found a recent literature review that is relevant to this: "Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: A Literature Review" by Marah H. Wahbeh and Dimitrios Avram …
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Why is a solution of cesium chloride used in Meselson & Stahl's DNA replication experiment?

In saline solution all the DNA ends up at the very bottom. Under centrifugation, the Caesium Chloride solution forms a density gradient, each DNA rises or sinks to the equivalent density. The same pro …
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Help Finding Specific BlaZ Gene Type Sequences on Genbank

You might have already tried this, but how about doing a BLAST search using one of the sequences you do have, and perhaps limiting the organism to Staph a. More info: The below article did a similar c …
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