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	<li>Active Site :&nbsp;The specific portion of an enzyme that attaches to the substrate by means of weak chemical bonds.</li>
	<li>Alignment :&nbsp;arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify similarities</li>
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	<li>Bioinformatics&nbsp;:&nbsp;an&nbsp;interdisciplinary&nbsp;field that develops methods and&nbsp;software tools&nbsp;for understanding&nbsp;biological&nbsp;data. As an&nbsp;interdisciplinary&nbsp;field of science, bioinformatics combines&nbsp;Computer Science,&nbsp;Biology,&nbsp;Mathematics, and&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;to analyze and interpret biological data.</li>
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	<li>BLAST :&nbsp;Basic&nbsp;Local&nbsp;Alignment&nbsp;Search&nbsp;Tool is an&nbsp;algorithm&nbsp;for comparing&nbsp;primary&nbsp;biological sequence information, such as the&nbsp;amino-acid&nbsp;sequences of&nbsp;proteins&nbsp;or the&nbsp;nucleotides&nbsp;of&nbsp;DNA sequences.</li>
	<li>Biomarker :&nbsp;generally refers to a measurable&nbsp;indicator&nbsp;of some biological state or condition. The term is also occasionally used to refer to a substance whose detection indicates the presence of a&nbsp;living organism.</li>
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	<li>Central dogma :&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>central dogma of molecular biology</strong>&nbsp;is an explanation of the flow of genetic information within a biological system.</li>
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<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DNA(Duplication)&nbsp;&rarr; RNA&nbsp;&rarr; Protein</p>

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	<li>CRISPR :&nbsp;&nbsp;a family of DNA&nbsp;sequences in bacteria. The sequences contain snippets of DNA from viruses that have attacked the bacterium.</li>
	<li>cDNA :&nbsp;&nbsp;DNA&nbsp;synthesized from a single stranded RNA</li>
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	<li>Domain :&nbsp;a conserved part of a given protein sequence and&nbsp;(tertiary) structure&nbsp;that can&nbsp;evolve, function, and exist independently of the rest of the protein chain.</li>
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	<li>Evolution :&nbsp;&nbsp;the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms</li>
	<li>Epigenetics :&nbsp;the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the&nbsp;DNA sequence</li>
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	<li>Frequency(allele&nbsp;frequency)<strong> : </strong>the relative frequency of an allele&nbsp;(variant of a gene) at a particular locus&nbsp;in a population,&nbsp;expressed as a fraction or percentage.</li>
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	<li>Gene Regulation :&nbsp;regulation of transcription; controlled by an operon which varies the accessibility of the RNA polymerase to genes being transcribed</li>
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	<li>Homolog :&nbsp;In biology, homology&nbsp;is the existence of shared ancestry between a pair of structures, or genes, in different taxa</li>
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	<li>Taxa :&nbsp;In&nbsp;biology, a&nbsp;taxon&nbsp;(plural&nbsp;taxa;&nbsp;back-formation&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>taxonomy</em>) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by&nbsp;taxonomists&nbsp;to form a unit.</li>
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	<li>Locus :&nbsp;in genetics&nbsp;is a fixed position on a chromosome, like the position of a gene or a marker (genetic marker) .</li>
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	<li>Ortholog :&nbsp;Orthologs are genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation. Normally, orthologs retain the same function in the course of evolution.</li>
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	<li>Paralog : Paralogs are genes related by duplication within a genome. Orthologs retain the same function in the course of evolution, whereas paralogs evolve new functions, even if these are related to the original one.</li>
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	<li>qRNA (Real time - PCR) :&nbsp;qPCR is used to quantitatively measure the amplification of DNA using fluorescent dyes. qPCR is also referred to as quantitative PCR,&nbsp;quantitative real-time PCR,&nbsp;and real-time quantitative PCR.</li>
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	<li>Reverse-Transcription RCR (RT-PCR) :&nbsp;&nbsp;RT-PCR is used to qualitatively detect gene expression through creation of complementary DNA(cDNA) transcripts from RNA</li>
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	<li>Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) :&nbsp;&nbsp;a variation in a single nucleotide that occurs at a specific position in the genome, where each variation is present to some appreciable degree within a population</li>
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