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  2. Ball-and-stick model - Wikipedia

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    Hofmann's 1865 ball-and-stick model of methane (CH 4). Later discoveries disproved this geometry. In 1865, German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann was the first to make ball-and-stick molecular models. He used such models in lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Specialist companies manufacture kits and models to order.

  3. Molecular geometry - Wikipedia

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    For example, methane (CH 4) is a tetrahedral molecule. Octahedral: Octa-signifies eight, and -hedral relates to a face of a solid, so "octahedral" means "having eight faces". The bond angle is 90 degrees. For example, sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6) is an octahedral molecule.

  4. Overlapping gene - Wikipedia

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    Studies on overlapping genes suggest that their evolution can be summarized in two possible models. [4] In one model, the two proteins encoded by their respective overlapping genes evolve under similar selection pressures. The proteins and the overlap region are highly conserved when strong selection against amino acid change is favored ...

  5. Orbital hybridisation - Wikipedia

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    Chemist Linus Pauling first developed the hybridisation theory in 1931 to explain the structure of simple molecules such as methane (CH 4) using atomic orbitals. [2] Pauling pointed out that a carbon atom forms four bonds by using one s and three p orbitals, so that "it might be inferred" that a carbon atom would form three bonds at right angles (using p orbitals) and a fourth weaker bond ...

  6. Tiling array - Wikipedia

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    The overlapping nature of the probes also allows detection of non-polyadenylated RNA and can produce a more precise picture of gene structure. [6] Earlier studies on chromosome 21 and 22 showed the power of tiling arrays for identifying transcription units.

  7. Protein folding - Wikipedia

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    Protein before and after folding Results of protein folding. Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered three-dimensional structure.

  8. Sequence alignment - Wikipedia

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    In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. [1]

  9. Chemical bond - Wikipedia

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    Non-polar covalent bonds in methane (CH 4). The Lewis structure shows electrons shared between C and H atoms. Covalent bonding is a common type of bonding in which two or more atoms share valence electrons more or less equally. The simplest and most common type is a single bond in which two atoms share two electrons.