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I am Tankeshwar Acharya. I am as working as an Assistant Professor and Microbiologist at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal. Microbeonline.com is an online guidebook of Microbiology, precisely speaking, Medical Microbiology. In this blog, I am/ will be sharing information and resources about pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and..
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During fasting, vigorous exercise, and hypoglycemic conditions, the body requires high glucose. Gluconeogenesis converts non-carbohydrate molecules like glycerol, pyruvate, lactate, glucogenic amino acids, and propionate to glucose molecules. Gluconeogenesis is
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Glycogen, an energy reservoir in animals, is a highly branched molecule or polysaccharide. It is present in the liver and skeletal muscles. When there is lack of glucose in blood,
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Glycogens are animals’ energy reserves and are highly branched glucose polymers. They are similar to starch, which is present as an energy reservoir in plant cells. The liver contains a
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Enzymes are biological catalysts with extraordinary catalytic power. They are central to every biochemical process. We know living systems derive energy from the surroundings through biochemical processes. For example, the
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An enzyme, DNA polymerase, catalyzes the synthesis of new DNA molecules from deoxyribonucleotides (the building blocks of DNA). It is crucial in living organisms’ DNA replication, repair, and recombination processes.
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Topoisomerases are a class of enzymes that play a crucial role in DNA metabolism. Their primary function is to regulate the topological state of DNA by introducing temporary breaks in
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Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), a method applicable in molecular biology to detect variations in DNA sequences among individuals. It relies on the fact that DNA sequences can vary between
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Exons are regions of a gene that contain coding information for the synthesis of proteins. During the process of gene expression exons are transcribed into mRNA and eventually translated into
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The “wobble hypothesis” refers to a concept in molecular biology that explains the degeneracy of codons. So, what are codons? Codons are sets of three nucleotides in mRNA (messenger RNA)
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Humoral immunity is a part of the immune system that involves producing and circulating antibodies. Antibodies are the proteins produced by specialized white blood cells called B cells (B lymphocytes).
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