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56 Questions

What is the difference between local and global sequence alignments?

How can Valonia ventricosa cells get so big?

What's the difference between shotgun sequencing and clone based sequencing?

Is there a difference between polarity and hydrophobicity?

Why do parasites sometimes kill their hosts?

Why isn't a virus “alive”?

How did the endoplasmic reticulum come to be?

What is the transmembrane 'Positive-Inside Rule' nowadays? Has the definition changed over time?

Why do specifically bananas go brown quicker in the fridge?

How statistically significant was the “sweaty T-shirt” experiment?

What is a subspecies?

Why does the 'Positive-inside Rule' exist?

How does paracetamol work?

Why is Sanger sequencing inferior for detecting SNPs in cancer cells?

Why do neurones use chemical signalling at synaptic junctions?

What are the benefits of elucidating the crystal structure of a protein?

Why are transmembrane proteins difficult to crystallise?

Why do men grow facial hair?

What is the difference between organelle membranes?

Why do some proteins “use” a beta barrel structure instead of alpha helices in transmembrane space?

How can bats hear such high frequencies?

What is solid-phase bridge amplification?

Why and how does uniprot list around 150,000 proteins in the human genome?

What are the characteristics of a promising drug?

Can bacteria release free DNA into their environment?

What makes a metal safe to use for an artificial joint?

How does membrane potential vary between intraceullar membranes and the cellular membrane?

What medical and commercial proteins are made using genetically modified animals?

Do people with congenital analgesia feel cold?

Why do many DNA solutions contain additional compounds?