Molecular Biology Terms

noun CAGs

• The company is currently analyzing the CAGs to determine the impact on their financial performance.
• I heard they're looking into the CAGs to see how it will affect their profits.
• They're checking out the CAGs to figure out how much money they're making.
• The CAGs are like puzzle pieces that need to be put together to understand the bigger picture.

noun MRCA stands for Most Recent Common Ancestor, referring to the most recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly descended.

• The MRCA of all modern humans lived in Africa around 200,000 years ago.
• The MRCA of all of us was apparently a cool dude from Africa.
• Yo, did you know we all share a common ancestor called the MRCA?
• The MRCA is like the ultimate family tree root for all of humanity.

noun a muscle that draws a body part, such as a limb, toward the midline of the body

verb to draw or move a body part, such as a limb, toward the midline of the body

• The muscle group responsible for hip adduction includes the adducts longus and adducts magnus.
• When you do that exercise, make sure to engage your adducts muscles.
• I can feel my adducts getting stronger from all these leg lifts.
• In times of stress, it's important to rely on your emotional adducts to stay centered.

noun a compound that is one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. It is paired with thymine in double-stranded DNA.

• Adenine is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA.
• I learned that adenine is a key component of DNA during my biology class.
• I heard that adenine is like the 'A' in the DNA code.
• Just like how adenine pairs with thymine in DNA, we make a great pair as friends.

noun a protein found in certain jellyfish that emits light when it binds with calcium ions

• Aequorin is a photoprotein found in certain jellyfish species that emits blue light when bound to calcium ions.
• I heard aequorin is what makes jellyfish glow in the dark.
• Yo, did you see that jellyfish? It's like they got some aequorin magic going on.
• Her smile lit up the room like aequorin in the deep sea.

noun a polysaccharide obtained from seaweed, used especially in gel electrophoresis

• Agarose gel electrophoresis is commonly used in molecular biology to separate DNA fragments based on size.
• I need to run the DNA samples on an agarose gel to see the band patterns.
• Let's load the agarose gel with the DNA samples and run the electrophoresis.
• The agarose gel acted like a sieve, separating the DNA fragments into distinct bands.