MOLGEN 2220H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Genome, Transposable Element, Gene Silencing
17 Feb 2016
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Keith slotkins (. 2) and his amazing quotes: all the way back in 2000, aka the stone age of genetics , maize has amazingly beautiful chromosomes , it"s genome chaos and it"s awesome . Arabidopsis: good for nothing but learning from (no food, oil value, ohio state is the center for their growth. Plants are models for research in: agricultural (usda), basic medical research (nih/nsf), energy (doe), environmental, this is how plant and animals genomes are diferent animals couldn"t be used for all of this. Braca1 breast cancer gene : look into this! Why plants: easy to reproduce, all plant cells are stem cells (potipotency, no nervous system plants won"t run away from you, plants don"t get cancer. But they can get tumors: no one cares what you do to plants . Barbara mcclintock: nobel prize for transposable elements, discovered chromosomes in maize. Thought it was proteins, but still impressive.
