Design and Construction of “Synthetic Species”

Design and Construction of “Synthetic Species”

Synthetic biology is an area of biological research that combines science and engineering. Here, I merge the principles of synthetic biology and regulatory evolution to create a new species with a minimal set of known elements. Using preexisting transgenes and recessive mutations of Drosophila melanogaster, a transgenic population arises with small eyes and a different venation pattern that ful...

Design and construction of a new Drosophila species, D.synthetica, by synthetic regulatory evolution

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

construction and validation of the translation teacher competency test and the scale of students’ perceptions of translation teachers

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...

The design and construction of synthetic protein mimics

A strate y for the modular construction of synthetic protein mimics base% on the ability of non-protein amino acids to act as stereochemical directors of polypeptide chain folding, is described. The use of d-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) to construct stereochemically rigid helices is exemplified by crystallographic and spectroscopic studies of several apolar peptides, ranging in len th from seven ...