template theory — a theory of the mechanism of antibody specificity, current during the 1930s and 40s, which proposed that the shape of an antibody molecule is determined as it is synthesized by being molded on an antigen molecule. The antigen thus “instructs†… Medical dictionary
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen — The assembled human DNA clamp, a trimer of the protein PCNA … Wikipedia
reaction — 1. The response of a muscle or other living tissue or organism to a stimulus. 2. The color change effected in litmus and certain other organic pigments by contact with substances such as acids or alkalies; also the property that such substances… … Medical dictionary
DNA clamp — Top and side views of a homotrimer of the human PCNA sliding clamp (rainbow colored, N terminus = blue, C term … Wikipedia
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virus — viruslike, adj. /vuy reuhs/, n., pl. viruses. 1. an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA … Universalium
Rosetta@home — infobox software name = Rosetta@home caption = Rosetta@home screensaver for CASP 8 target [http://predictioncenter.gc.ucdavis.edu/casp8/target.cgi?id=119 view=all T0482] developer = Baker laboratory, University of Washington; Rosetta Commons… … Wikipedia
heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… … Universalium
Frank Macfarlane Burnet — Infobox Scientist name = Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet box width = image width =170px caption = At the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1945 birth date = birth date|1899|9|3|df=y birth place = Traralgon, Victoria death date = Death date and… … Wikipedia
DNA repair — For the journal, see DNA Repair (journal). DNA damage resulting in multiple broken chromosomes DNA repair refers to a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome. In human… … Wikipedia
DNA mismatch repair — is a system for recognizing and repairing erroneous insertion, deletion and mis incorporation of bases that can arise during DNA replication and recombination, as well as repairing some forms of DNA damage.[1][2] Mismatch repair is strand… … Wikipedia