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Extraneous

Extraneous

outside of the organism and not belonging to it.

Origin: L. Extraneus


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Photosynthetic capacity of plant - Experimental control

... not see how e) would be a control; chlorophyll is not explicitly in the equation for photosynthesis and the controls should be to see if there are extraneous variables in the dark and light hours.

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by vertciel
Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:02 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Photosynthetic capacity of plant - Experimental control
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using cheek cell dna

... in boiling water bath for 8 minutes. 11. vortex 10 seconds. 12. spin in a microcentrifuge at maximum speed for 3 minutes. 13. bottom = chelex and extraneous cellular matter, top layer = DNA. Sample = ready for PCR or may be stored at 4 C or frozen at -20 C. When reused after storage, thaw and ...

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by sdekivit
Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:46 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: using cheek cell dna
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Views: 681

organelles (both plant and animal)

... that will never divide again, like muscle cells, centrioles would work, but I don't think they persist anyway. Cells don't tend to have a lot of extraneous parts - most guesses at this would include a certain amount of ignorance about the purpose of some organelles in some cells.

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by Darby
Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:47 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: organelles (both plant and animal)
Replies: 11
Views: 1569

GM Mosquitoes

Scientists can now put an extraneous gene into an organism, such technology has been used to create GM Mosquitoes (genetically modified). Research has shown that these GM Mosquitoes, which loss the ability to transfer malaria with the ...

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by cyberpostdoc
Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:31 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: GM Mosquitoes
Replies: 3
Views: 563

The Fiber Disease

... targeting concept has been realized by using the fol- lowing strategies. In adapter-mediated targeting, the tropism of the virus is modified by an extraneous targeting moiety, the ligand, which associates with the Ad virion either covalently or noncovalently. Adapters or adapter-ligand complexes ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:23 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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