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Topic: Gene

Related:
  Gene Therapy    Gene Autry  
  Gene Kelly    Gene Hackman  
  Gene Simmons    Gene Splicing  
  Gene Edward    Gene Krupa  
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  Gene Wilder    Gene Watson  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Intelligence:Genius
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite activity(s):Taking IQ tests
Favorite animal(s):Mouse
Interest(s):Biology,  Science,  Chemistry
Favorite great thinker(s):Richard Dawkins,  Charles Darwin,  Stephen Hawking
Ultimate fantasy(s):Cloning themselves
Medical note(s):Family history of schizophrenia,  Produces Anthrax in their basement,  Undergoing therapy
Worst habit(s):Drinking
Membership(s):Greenpeace,  Natural Law Party
Favorite quote(s):"Fill what's empty , empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

The genes of Texas Longhorns give us a beef that has nutrition values more beneficial for man.
Step three was to modify your genes so that puberty will trigger some other changes.
Glucocorticoids are responsible for turning on many genes that may suppress cancer and regulate blood sugar.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

These genes cause recognizable chick down color and influence the adult feather color, sometimes male and female feather colors are influenced differently.
Gene's rich red hair is swept back into an elaborate twist and topped with a crown of curls.
Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent

There are more hairless genes than the one that Sphynx breeders are working with today.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Recessive genes will only manifest themselves if inherited from both sire and dam and only if the genes are passed to individuals in a certain way.
Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender

A tomato with genes from peanuts might cause allergic reactions in people with peanut allergies who unsuspectingly consume the tomato not labelled as genetically engineered.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

These genes are often thought of as being related to each other through mutations (one allele could be a mutation of another allele) or they could be mutations of an ancestor gene.
These genes would allow to investigate the molecular basis of the differences in motility, infectivity for mosquito salivary glands and vertebrate host cells that have been observed among sporozoites at different developmental stages.
We are interested in how genes work, and would like to study the way in which proteins change DNA structure to switch genes on and off.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

The MAL genes are a heavily repeated gene family found near the telomeres of some yeast strains and are not present in s288c.
 
 
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2005-01-26 10:45:44
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