The Molecular Biology Notebook Online
A Beginners' Guide to Molecular Biology

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Host

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An organism that offers subsistance or shelter to a parasite or symbiote. In molecular biology, it applies to a cell that receives a plasmid or virus to multiply it.

View Dr Chromo's lecture on 'Introduction to cloning'.

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• 1and1 hosting : Web Site Hosting and DNS Provider
• Cloning into a Plasmid: Process by which a plasmid is used to import recombinant DNA into a host cell for cloning
• COMPONENT 2: COMPONENT is a computer program for analysing evolutionary trees and is intended for use in studies of phylogeny, tree shape distribution, gene trees/species trees, host-parasite cospeciation, and biogeography.
• Phi-base: Pathogene Host interaction: This database contains expertly curated molecular and biological information on genes proven to affect the outcome of pathogen-host interactions
• Staden Site at sanger: The Staden Package consists of a series of tools for DNA sequence preparation (pregap4), assembly (gap4), editing (gap4) and DNA/protein sequence analysis (spin). The package was originally developed at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge. It is now open source (BSD licence) and is hosted on sourceforge.net.
• Viral Genetics: Viruses have a simple structure consisting usually of nucleic acid packed into a protein head. They lack the metabolic machinery for isolated mutiplication and must invade a host cell in order to reproduce. This parasitic lifestyle gives rise to some interesting reproductive cycles which we will explore in this chapter.

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