Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / January 2004

I am working on a project for my Biology class, and need some help.  I
am supposed to find 3 positive gene on Chromosome 21, and am having
extreme difficulty.  There are many bad things, such as Schizophrenia,
Deafness, Lou Gehrig's disease, and many more, but I can only find two

terminology:
human genome- the set of all genes found in the human species
human proteome- the set of all proteins found in the human species
human phenome- the set of all physical traits found in the human

I really liked this article:
http://www.bio.com/newsfeatures/newsfeatures_research.jhtml?cid=130811149&page=1
The Elves software package is allowing the 3D protein structure
mapping process to be automated. While mapping the proteome is the

Forgive for asking this inane question, but why has
NASA chosen not to land a rover on either of the Martian Poles?
thanks,
mike

I was reading this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040116075328.htm
It seems to imply that proteins can contain junk amino sequences,
analogous to the way that DNA can contain junk nucleotide sequences.

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We are posting news analysis, commentary and links such as
the below-noted article in the upcoming issue of the Journal of the
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I want to calculate the correlation dimension of a time serie.
What I have done
I calculated the correlation integral C(r) (number of point having a
distance smaller than r) for different embedding dimensions. Taking

I found the hypothesis that there are some meatazoa with a contractile
vacuole, but I didn't find any information about which taxa have one.
Google didn't find anything useful.
Does anybody know anything about it?

Has there been any investigation of the possibility that the origin of
the mitotic spindle really is due to electromagnetism?
Compare the image on this page:
Media: Mitotic Spindle.

Hi.
I'm 30 and am thinking seriously about starting a second career as a
veterinarian.  For the past ten years, I have enjoyed a fairly
lucrative career as a software engineer, but now I am very serious

I am looking for dish wash soap called "dawn" made by P&G before 1998.
If Anyone has those kind of soap either "dawn" or "ultra dawn",you may
contact me by jie_z@hotmail.com.
I will buy those soap at the price 10 times high /bottle with the

can we use soda glass beads for cell breaking? The soda glass beads
are very cheap and readily available in required sizes (0.4-0.6 mm).
Can someone tell me the specifiactions and requirements of glass beads
for cell breaking with regard to the pH of the glass beads

Can anyone help me out with required articles?
I am looking for articles or books which explain the effect of
fluorocarbon based nonionic surfactants in whole cell biocatalysis.
Key words : Whole cell biocatalysis, biodegradation, surfactants

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_852293.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery
Fertility fears over fall in sperm counts
Research showing that sperm counts have dropped by almost a third in a
decade prompted have renewed concerns about male fertility.

I've always wondered about this... can anybody give the scientific answer:
pigeons bob their heads when they walk - is this because:
(a) mechanical:  pigeon necks are attached to their legs somehow with
tendons