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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 10:30 PM
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Any geneticists out there?
I've been studying way too much today and my brain has just stopped working.

I'm looking at a picture of some protein structural motifs like leucine zippers and helix-alpha-helix dimers, and I can see that their basic domains are the ones interacting with the DNA strand, and I know that's obviously right, but I can't come up with why and it's irritating the hell out of me.

Can anyone help before my brain dies for the night?
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 10:53 PM
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1. Um, I think I could spell genetics in a pinch, that's about it, but here's
a :kick:
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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 10:55 PM
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2. Hehe...thanks
I'm sure I'll think of it tomorrow

Ah, wait, I'm a moron. Wow. I can't believe I just thought of it and that I'm so thick as to not have it occur to me until just now.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 11:00 PM
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3. All right, congratulations. Those momentary lapses come at the strangest
times.
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hickman Donating Member (904 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 11:10 PM
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4. Nope. Sorry. But in the immortal words of Dr Malcolm,
Life will out.
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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 02:48 AM
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5. Co-dependency situation?
DNA enables a lot of bonding. Course, it could also be a sort of split-personality--a to be or not to be Shakespeare kind of thing. For rational answer to the question "why?", check study guide/syllabus, for clues.
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