MY BIOLOGY DICTIONARY
DNA is packaged and is present as chromatin scaffolded with non-histone chromosomal proteins. In some places, chromatin is densely packed to form the darkly stained and transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin. Heterochromatin...
In many eukaryotic genes, the coding sequences are interrupted by blocks of non-coding sequences. These intervening sequences are termed introns. Exons can be defined as any region of the immature...
Ever wondered why your nose resembles your father’s nose? This is due to the inheritance of traits from generation to generation. Our modern understanding of how traits may be passed...
Do you remember watching crime TV shows when you were a kid? Remember how in CID whenever a crime would take place the detectives would search for fingerprints. This approach has...
Hello NEET aspirants, worried about the previous year Biology NEET questions? Don’t worry, we got you covered! Here are 15 most important NEET MCQs from Chapter 5- Principles of Inheritance...
In nature, a few characteristics have traits spread across gradients which is unlike the Mendelian inheritance pattern. In polygenic inheritance, two or more genes control one character. These are called polygenic...
