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  1. What is Centimorgans?
    Centimorgans is a unit to measures the dna linkage or the frequency of recombination. the distance ...
  2. What is Physical Map?
    The physical map provides information about the location of observable indicators on the dna and the ...
  3. What is Cytologic Map?
    The cytologic map is the way of determining position of genes on a chromosome on the ...
  4. What is Base Calling?
    Base calling is the process in which raw data is converted to nucleotide bases and assigned ...
  5. What is Alternative Splicing?
    During gene expression, a regulated process that generates multiple proteins form single dna template, the process ...
  6. What is Exon ShuffiIng?
    Exon shuffling is a molecular mechanism in which new genes are formed during evolution. it is ...
  7. What is Lateral Gene Transfer and Horizontal Gene Transfer?
    Horizontal gene transfer sometimes known as lateral gene transfer is a phenomenon in which transmission ...
  8. What is Synteny?
    Synteny is the physical arrangement of the genes on a particular locus. in other words, if ...
  9. What is Transcriptome Analysis?
    Transcriptome analysis is high-throughput such as microarray analysis, study of the complete set of expressed rna ...
  10. What is Gene Index Construction?
    It is a method used to cluster annotated expressed sequence tags (ests) by removing the duplications ...
  11. What is Locally Weighted Scatter Plot Smoother (Lowess) Regression?
    It is a statistical approachwhich is used in regression analysis that shows the relationship between set ...
  12. What is Supervised Analysis?
    The supervised analysis is an approach in which data is classified according to the already defined ...
  13. What is Unsupervised Analysis?
    The unsupervised analysis is an approach in which the elements of analysis are classified on the ...
  14. What is Bottom Up Approach?
    A clustering technique in which two points or information are clustered on the basis of similarity ...
  15. What is Top Down Approach?
    It is a schismatic approach that combines all experimental data or information and then according to ...
  16. What is Single Linkage Method?
    Single linkage method is the grouping method in which two most similar elements are combined. hence ...
  17. What is Complete Linkage Method?
    Complete linkage method is the clustering method in which two entities are clustered on the basis ...
  18. What is Proteome?
    The proteome is complete collection of expressed proteins found in an organism at a particular time ...
  19. What is 2D Page?
    The 2d-page stands for two-dimensional poly acrylamide gel electrophoresis, a technique in protein mixture is analyzed ...
  20. What is Hyperplane?
    Hyperplane is a mathematical approach that identifies the true positive results and reduces the false positive ...
  21. What is DisulfiDe Bridge?
    A disulfide bridge is formed when a cysteine loses its hydrogen and forms a covalent bond ...
  22. What is Transformation?
    Transformation is the one of the process of horizontal gene transfer, in which incorporation of external ...
  23. What is Conjugation?
    Conjugation is the exchange of genetic material occurs between bacterial cells. this is the only horizontal ...
  24. What is Transduction?
    In horizontal gene transfer, if the genetic material is exchanged through viral infection, then it is ...
  25. What is Regulatory Elements?
    Regulatory elements are the sequences of dna that regulates the expression of coding genes through binding ...
  26. What is Synonymous Substitutions?
    A synonymous substitution is a change in nucleotide base pair in an exon of a gene ...
  27. What is Nonsynonymous Substitutions?
    A nonsynonymous substitution is a mutation in nucleotide base pair in an exon of a gene ...
  28. What is Quartets?
    A quartet is an unrooted tree that has number of subsets of four leaves. the quartets ...
  29. What is Coiled Coils?
    When different alpha helices from same or different protein, interact with each other form the structure ...
  30. What is Helical Junctions?
    The helical junctions is a complex secondary structure formed when more than two base paired region ...
  31. What is Genetic Markers?
    A genetic marker is a short dna sequence that can be a gene or a mutation, ...
  32. What is Scaffolds?
    In genome mapping, a series of contigs are assembled into chromosomes moving in one direction and ...
  33. What is Interologs?
    If a pair of conserved protein in one specie interact with their homolgs in other specie ...