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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a prion, a normal protein that is mis-folded and cannot be broken down by the body.
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Does the West Nile Disease have DNA or RNA?
West Nile virus contains strands of RNA.
What does some disease causing viruses have instead of DNA?
RNA
What is the function of agarose gel electrophoresis?
Agarose gel electrophoresis is for determining the size of a piece of RNA or DNA. It can be used to determine the culprit of a crime, relatives, even the cause of some diseases, like Mad Cow.
What are two types of nucleic acid found the cell?
Deoxy-ribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA)
What is the name of the nucleotides have no DNA and no RNA?
Nucleotides do not have DNA or RNA. DNA and RNA are composed of nucleotides.
A disease causing particle made of RNA without a capsid is called?
A Prion. It transmits a mis-folded protein state, and replicates by causing the host's proteins to replicate into its mis-folded pattern. Mad Cow disease is an example of a prion.
Name two human disease caused by RNA viruses and DNA viruses and how are they transmitted?
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Is bacterial meningitis DNA or RNA?
Your question makes no sense. Bacterial meningitis is a bacterial infection of the meninges, the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. DNA and RNA are both molecules that code the structure and function of cells.
What enzyme transcribes DNA?
The enzyme that transcribes the DNA into RNA is called RNA polymerase.
A major difference in RNA as compared to DNA is?
RNA can move and DNA cant. DNA has a double helix strand and RNA is a single strand.
What is the substance in RNA but not DNA?
An uracil base is in RNA but not in DNA
Are DNA and RNA carbohydrates?
Yes, DNA and RNA have different sugar . DNA contains deoxyribose sugar whereas RNA consists of ribose sugar, which are completely different from each other.
