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OpenStudy (praxer):

Bio queries..

OpenStudy (praxer):

FUSION OF LYMPHOTIC AND TUMOUR CELLS ARE CALLED ?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

umm...does it have option? dis ques is a lil confusing...can u be more specific....

OpenStudy (praxer):

this question is from my biotechnology and application chapter( NCERT) I don't even know what does it mean only one thing that day after tommorow is my test :)

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

really? umm...can u tell me somthing from the chapter so that i can get a lil hint abot what dis ques is?

OpenStudy (praxer):

Let me find it.. Till then can you help me explain this. What is polymerase chain reaction and how it can be utilized for gene amplification?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

sure...first of all u know how does DNA replicate and forms multiple copies of self?

OpenStudy (praxer):

NO, One thing lymphotic and tumour cells are associated with which kingdom. ( Foolish question but sorry i don't know this) :)

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

they r not associated wid any kingdom...tumour cells are abnormal cells...umm..in simple words cancer cells...

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

ill show u a very simple diag of dna replication ok?

OpenStudy (praxer):

OK...

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

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OpenStudy (praxer):

What is happening in the diagram. I Mean the two lines broke and again joined, why so ?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

not joined...see d 2 lines r 2 strands of DNA. they separate... then a new strand starts forming oppsoite both the lines....so now u get 4 strands and 2 DNA molecules.. earlier u had only 1 molecule right? now u have 2...

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

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OpenStudy (praxer):

Hmmmmm... i GOT IT ... NOW WHAT FOR THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ? WHAT WILL HAPPEN THERE ?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

so in polymerase chain reaction...u add the DNA molecule...then add d primer..and a few enzymes which actually do the work. then the process that i showed in the picture occurs thousands of times giving u large no of copies of the DNA molecle u had added earlier

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

geting me so far?

OpenStudy (praxer):

YUP. This occurs in the DNA fingerprinting process also, right ? And i have found in a book that hybridoma is the fusion of the lymphatic and tumour cells. Can it be so,

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

also DNA contains all the genes which store the information for all kinds of stuff in ur body...so the DNA molecule that u add is nothing but the gene that u want to have in a huge no of copies....so amplification...

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

dna fingerprinting is somewhat different...if u want to find analogy then try it witha xerox machine...u get exact foto copy of the gene

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

and u r right about hybridoma:D

OpenStudy (praxer):

at least i did something correct. Ok i got it means in the polymerase chan reaction the dna strands are being produced multiple times, Right ?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

exactly:D

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

see i told u..biology is not dat bad..:D i m sure u will start liking it...or atleast stop hating it..:P

OpenStudy (praxer):

incomplete dominance ? @shrutipande9

OpenStudy (praxer):

incomplete dominance please ?

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

sure....lets consider this example...RR gives red flowers and rr gives white.. so normally if u have Rr you shold get red coloured flowers right? but in incomplete dominance...phenotypes of both the homozygotes are mixed and an intermediate phenotype is seen in a heterozygote. so Rr gives pink colour...

OpenStudy (praxer):

and in codominance...

OpenStudy (shrutipande9):

visualizes a cow with brown and white patches....in a heteozygote...u get brown colour at some plaaces and white at some other....

OpenStudy (praxer):

ok, so, that is incomplete dominance. Got it..

OpenStudy (praxer):

now in co dominance...

OpenStudy (praxer):

I have read that it occurs in blood group but couldn't understand what it means.

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