DNA Fingerprinting: Modern Day Sherlock Holmes
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...
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Can we create a Unicorn by DNA manipulation?
With advancing technological approaches to genetic engineering, the term ‘transgenic animal’ is not difficult to define. An animal with a change in its nuclear or mitochondrial DNA (addition, substituition, or deletion...
Is Nucleus a double membrane organelle?
Robert Brown discovered Nucleus in 1831, a double membrane organelle. During his experiments, he observed a structure in plant cells and termed it as “nucleus”. Walther Flemming in 1879 discovered...
Did you know our DNA is 99.9% same?
Let’s dig into the nucleus and get entangled with DNA. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, it is a long polymer of deoxyribonucleotides. DNA is mostly localised in the nucleus and...
Adenine & Guanine structure
Hola cell biologists! As you are aware, the monomeric units of DNA are called deoxyribonucleotides and those of RNA are ribonucleotides. Nitrogenous bases fall into two types—purines and pyrimidines. They...
