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  1. Bering Strait
    a strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean
    For example, mtDNA analysis has been used to trace the migration of people from Asia across the Bering Strait to North and South America.
  2. development
    a process in which something passes to a different stage
    In fact, at each stage of development, different globin genes are turned on and off through a process of transcriptional regulation called "switching".
  3. Huntington
    a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha
    Well-known dominant alleles occur in the human genes for Huntington disease, a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, and polydactylism (extra fingers and toes).
  4. Darwin
    English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
    Mutations are what lie behind the popular saying of "survival of the fittest", the basic theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859.
  5. South America
    a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
    For example, mtDNA analysis has been used to trace the migration of people from Asia across the Bering Strait to North and South America.
  6. state
    the way something is with respect to its main attributes
    The "Central Dogma"-a fundamental principle of molecular biology-states that genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to protein.
Created on 二月 15, 2011

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