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7 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Molecular Biology.

  • Epigenetics — The study and mechanisms of persistent regulation of gene activity and cellular state that do not depend on changing the underlying DNA sequence, often mediated by chromatin, DNA modification and regulatory inheritance.
  • Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization — Preserve cells, tissues, or chromosomes in place, hybridize sequence-complementary probes to selected DNA or RNA targets, and read the retained fluorescent signal as target presence, number, arrangement, or spatial location.
  • Genetic code — The rule system mapping nucleotide codons in messenger RNA to amino acids or translation-stop signals.
  • Post-transcriptional modification — Processing that chemically or structurally alters a primary RNA transcript into a mature or regulated RNA molecule.
  • Pseudoprotease — A protease-family pseudoenzyme that retains the ancestral fold but lacks one or more catalytic requirements, often serving regulatory, binding, assembly or substrate-presentation roles.
  • RAN translation — Repeat-associated non-AUG translation initiated within expanded nucleotide repeats without a conventional AUG start codon.
  • Regulation of gene expression — The control of when, where and how strongly genetic information is converted into functional RNA or protein products.