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Enhancement of Bioprocesses for the Reclamation of Impacted Environment
Published in Akinola Rasheed Popoola, Emeka Godfrey Nwoba, James Chukwuma Ogbonna, Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Nwadiuto (Diuto) Esiobu, Abdulrazak B. Ibrahim, Benjamin Ewa Ubi, Bioenergy and Environmental Biotechnology for Sustainable Development, 2022
Beckley Ikhajiagbe, Geoffrey O. Anoliefo, Francis Aibuedefe Igiebor, Saheed Ibrahim Musa
Genes are units of heredity that are sectioned in DNA particles. They control the expression of characters in creatures. Genes responsible for coding of proteins which helps manage all activities of living organisms’slife, helping them work and develop. Genes essentially lead to the creation and articulation of everything in the organism. Mobile genetic elements, for example, plasmids and transposons, have been found to encode compounds liable for the reduction of a few pesticides. Glycosidic surfactant is encoded by rhl A, B, R and I genes. These microbially created surface-dynamic compounds have the capacity to decrease the surface and interfacial strain between two immiscible liquid stages.
Population Genetics
Published in Yeqiao Wang, Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity, 2020
Genes are the fundamental hereditary units transmitted from parent to offspring in every generation. Population genetics is concerned with the statistical rules that govern the transmission of genes within collections of interbreeding individuals over time. Changes in the frequencies of genes within populations are the basis for evolutionary change, as well as the basis for the genetic improvement of plants and animals that provide human sustenance.
Introduction to Nanosensors
Published in Vinod Kumar Khanna, Nanosensors, 2021
Heredity is the transmission of characteristics from one generation to successive generations. A chromosome is a thread-like body in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, which is composed of DNA and protein, and carries the genes.
Hybrid gene regulatory network for product styling construction in interactive evolutionary design
Published in Journal of Engineering Design, 2023
Dong Zeng, Jingjing Miao, Chaogang Tang, Yaxin Long, Maoen He
Genes are the basic unit of heredity. In product styling, genes contain important information on product function and form characteristics (Li, Ai, and Wang 2016). Numerous studies have applied genetic concepts to understand product design. Product genes do not function in isolation, but work together through a complex network of gene-gene interactions. The product styling gene regulatory network (PGRN) is a form of network formed by applying the idea of complex networks to the concept of product gene.