Computing Computer Science & Engineering DNA Computing Computer chip manufacturers have discovered that sooner or later the physical speed and miniaturization limits of silicon chip is bound to hit a wall‚ therefore they need a new material to produce faster computing speed with fewewr complexity. DNA‚ the material are genes are made of‚ is being used to built the next generation of microprocessor. A nascent technology that uses DNA molecules is to build computers that are faster
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advances in harvesting mitochondrial DNA. “Markers” are used to trace ancestry. These markers are found through DNA Sequencing and SNP testing. The general acceptance is that the human race stemmed from a woman referred to as “Mitochondrial Eve.” It is estimated that she lived 200‚00 years ago in Africa (Rice University). Margit M. K. Nass and Sylvan Nass are accredited in discovering Mitochondrial DNA‚ or mtDNA in 1960 using electron microscopy (Rice University). DNA is found in two places in the cell;
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DNA fingerprinting is a way of identifying a specific individual‚ rather than simply identifying a species or some particular trait. It is also known as genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling. As a technology‚ it has been around since at least 1985‚ when it was announced by its inventor‚ Sir Alec Jeffreys. DNA fingerprinting is currently used both for identifying paternity or maternity and for identifying criminals or victims. There is discussion of using DNA fingerprinting as a sort of personal
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Introduction Extraction is a purification technique used in organic chemistry to separate compounds from a mixture of two or more compounds. There are three different extraction techniques: liquid-liquid extraction‚ solid-liquid extraction and chemically active extraction. All three types of extraction follow the same principle. Organic molecules dissolve in organic solvents and polar molecules dissolve in aqueous solvents. This phenomenon is observed because of the intermolecular forces between
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The history of DNA structure discovery(sec.4.1): 1869- Johan miescher •studies the nuclei of white blood cells(isolated th material using HCL and digestive proteins •Named the substance nulclein and also found the material was rich in nitrogen and phosphorus. 1919-Pheobus levene •Discovered that DNA was made of chains of nucleotides *see nucleotide structure* 1920 DNAvsRNA * see chart •Thought that 4 nucleotides were connected in the same repeated pattern •protein gas 20 amino acids
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Experiment 3 Liquid-Liquid Extraction Discussion The success of extracting each compound out of the solution can be seen in the IR graphs for each substance. For ethyl 4-aminobenzoate‚ the N-H‚ C=O and C-O are distinguishable in their proper wavenumber positions. The amino N-H stretch was found between 3224 cm-1 and 3423 cm-1. The C=O was found at 1681 cm-1 and the C-O was at 1280 cm-1. The IR for benzoic acid also displays its significant bonds‚ O-H and C=O. The O-H was between 2566 and
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The discovery of DNA is attributed to the research of three scientists in 1951; Francis Crick‚ Maurice Wilkins‚ and James Dewey Watson. They were all later accredited with the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1962. Thanks to their discovery‚ science has been able to research and learn from DNA blueprints and use recombinant DNA technology to discover answers‚ vaccines and build immunity for many viruses. In recent years science has been using this new technology to genetically modify animals
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DNA extraction in Watermelon and Bananas Abstract During this experiment the researcher investigated the differing amounts of DNA present in bananas and watermelon. So that the researcher could do this‚ and accurately record the amounts‚ the researcher liquefied the fruits in a blender‚ added water and salt to them‚ and the added laundry detergent before using contact solution as an enzyme. Rubbing alcohol was then poured into the mixture and the DNA was extracted and
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DNA Packaging: Nucleosomes and Chromatin By: Anthony T. Annunziato‚ Ph.D. (Biology Department‚ Boston College) © 2008 Nature Education Citation: Annunziato‚ A. (2008) DNA packaging: Nucleosomes and chromatin. Nature Education 1(1) Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back‚ more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? The haploid human genome contains approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA packaged
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life (1). Significant developments have been made in gene monitoring techniques specifically in DNA microarrays which only very recently revolutionized genome expression analysis (1). Despite continuous improvements and modification to the technique‚ DNA microarrays are still no more than a glass microscope slide studded with individual immobile nucleotide fragments (1‚ 2). The fundamentals of DNA microarrays are set on complementary base-pairing (3)‚ and because the exact sequence and position
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