January 2, 2007
As I explain on a page you can click to here, I chose the name “GoldenSwamp” as my home on the Internet because, to put it informally: the Internet is a swamp, and it is full of gold. I am convinced that education needs to understand and act upon the nature of the Internet - which is the theme of my blog. As several years have now passed since I made the choice of the GoldenSwamp name, both the swamp character and presence of gold have proven increasingly valid.
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Golden,
implies,
sense-making,
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January 2, 2007
The biker above is a piece of an image from a group of winners in a Creative Commons China Photo Content competition. A ceremony was held this week in the National Library in Beijing, as reported by Joi Ito who attended the event. The full image in which the biker appear is here.
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January 2, 2007
Please excuse me if the material is slightly long or beyond the scope of MCAT. But, I think, this should summarize most of eukaryotic transcription. For the purposes of this post, I’m only going to summarize RNA pol II (mRNA synthesis) mediated transcription. RNA pol I regulates rRNA synthesis and Pol III regulates 5s RNA and tRNA synthesis.
The mechanism of gene transcription by RNA pol II follows 3 general steps, initiation, elongation and termination. These 3 steps are followed by RNA processing.
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Eukaryotic,
Transcription